lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2003]   [Aug]   [25]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
Subjectvesafb mtrr setup question
The following lines are pulled out of drivers/video/vesafb.c (2.4.20):
Line 646 onwards..

> if (mtrr) {
> int temp_size = video_size;
> /* Find the largest power-of-two */
> while (temp_size & (temp_size - 1))
> temp_size &= (temp_size - 1);
>
In the first place, the power of two computation computes the largest
power of 2 that is _smaller_ than video_size, so it looks like an
off-by-1 bug.

> /* Try and find a power of two to add */
> while (temp_size && mtrr_add(video_base, temp_size, MTRR_TYPE_WRCOMB, 1)==-EINVAL) {
> temp_size >>= 1;
> }
> }

Secondly, what's the point of requesting a smaller write-combining
segment that won't cover all the video memory being used? If it fails
the first time round, shouldn't we either give up or attempt requesting
several contiguous segments?

-- arvind
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2005-03-22 13:48    [W:0.046 / U:0.764 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site