On Thu, 2001-11-22 at 11:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >I suspect it's less stable for us than for the x86 folks though, or
> >there would be more noise about it on the various lists.
> >
> >
> >What's this agp_special_page about?
> 
> The agp_special_page is a page of RAM reserved by some code I have
> in the kernel's MM init stuff which is as high as possible, that is
> outside of the AGP aperture from the card's space (remember we have
> the AGP aperture at 0).
> 
> The problem is that UniNorth seem to have a bug preventing writes
> from the card to AGP memory to work properly. By putting the ring
> read ptr (which is updated by the video chip) in this special page
> outside of AGP space, we force the card to use a normal PCI cycle
> instead of an AGP cycle to update this pointer.

Did you use it from the start in your AGP implementation? I didn't
notice any difference between a couple weeks back and lately.


-- 
Earthling Michel D�nzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast

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