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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Etienne Lorrain <etienne_lorrain@yahoo.fr>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: specific optimizations for unaccelerated framebuffers
Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2001 00:35:47 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011006003547.A42@toy.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3BBC4A4E.AC6106A6@ftel.co.uk> <20011004123118.49603.qmail@web11806.mail.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <20011004123118.49603.qmail@web11806.mail.yahoo.com>; from etienne_lorrain@yahoo.fr on Thu, Oct 04, 2001 at 02:31:18PM +0200

Hi!

>   I am not speaking of DMA'ing at the refresh frequency (approx 70 times
>  per second the complete video memory), just the modified 64Kb blocks,
>  "once upon a while": if a single pixel is written twice, you will just
>  see the latter written value on the screen - but who cares.
>   Been able to DMA the complete video memory image around 5-10 times/second
>  should be over the human eye sensitivity.
>   Moreover this pixel will stay on the processor memory cache a lot
>  longer, even without MTRR processors.

Yep, that should work. Same trick as xterm uses.
								Pavel
[Of course, user *will* see you are only updating at 5fps... But it will
be way beter than current slowness.] Are you going to create a patch?
-- 
Philips Velo 1: 1"x4"x8", 300gram, 60, 12MB, 40bogomips, linux, mutt,
details at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/velo/index.html.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-10-13 20:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <3BBC4A4E.AC6106A6@ftel.co.uk>
2001-10-04 12:31 ` specific optimizations for unaccelerated framebuffers Etienne Lorrain
2001-10-04 14:01   ` Christopher Friesen
2001-10-04 14:28     ` Etienne Lorrain
2001-10-04 22:59       ` Alex Bligh - linux-kernel
2001-10-06  0:35   ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2001-10-15  9:26     ` Etienne Lorrain
2001-10-04  8:58 Etienne Lorrain

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