Thread (101 messages) 101 messages, 14 authors, 2005-03-17

Re: Re: radeon, apertures & memory mapping

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From: Jon Smirl <hidden>
Date: 2005-03-14 04:41:18

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 15:07:26 +1100, Paul Mackerras [off-list ref] wrote:
xorg@lists.freedesktop.org removed from CC since I can't post to it.

Jon Smirl writes:
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It shouldn't hurt to have a parallel non-cached mapping being used in
conjuction with this protocol. By definition the non-cached mapping
never gets into an inconsistent state.
According to the PowerPC Architecture specification, it is a
programming error to have both cacheable and uncacheable mappings of
the same page.  That means the hardware designers consider that they
don't have to worry if the hardware misbehaves if software does
that. :P  So that is not a feasible solution for us.

Paul.
Ok, I see this is a problem for the PPC. I've never used a PPC so you
guys have to tell me what is illegal on it.

-- 
Jon Smirl
jonsmirl@gmail.com


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