[U-Boot] [PATCH v2 15/22] x86: ivybridge: Set up an MTRR for the video frame buffer

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Fri Jan 2 00:18:08 CET 2015


Set the frame buffer to write-combining. This makes it faster, although for
scrolling write-through is even faster for U-Boot.

Signed-off-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
---

Changes in v2:
- Remove definition of 'ulong start' from this patch

 arch/x86/cpu/ivybridge/gma.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/cpu/ivybridge/gma.c b/arch/x86/cpu/ivybridge/gma.c
index cf4f87c..6cf9654 100644
--- a/arch/x86/cpu/ivybridge/gma.c
+++ b/arch/x86/cpu/ivybridge/gma.c
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 #include <fdtdec.h>
 #include <pci_rom.h>
 #include <asm/io.h>
+#include <asm/mtrr.h>
 #include <asm/pci.h>
 #include <asm/arch/pch.h>
 #include <asm/arch/sandybridge.h>
@@ -735,6 +736,7 @@ int gma_func0_init(pci_dev_t dev, struct pci_controller *hose,
 	ulong start;
 #endif
 	void *gtt_bar;
+	ulong base;
 	u32 reg32;
 	int ret;
 
@@ -743,6 +745,11 @@ int gma_func0_init(pci_dev_t dev, struct pci_controller *hose,
 	reg32 |= PCI_COMMAND_MASTER | PCI_COMMAND_MEMORY | PCI_COMMAND_IO;
 	pci_write_config32(dev, PCI_COMMAND, reg32);
 
+	/* Use write-combining for the graphics memory, 256MB */
+	base = pci_read_bar32(hose, dev, 2);
+	mtrr_add_request(MTRR_TYPE_WRCOMB, base, 256 << 20);
+	mtrr_commit(true);
+
 	gtt_bar = (void *)pci_read_bar32(pci_bus_to_hose(0), dev, 0);
 	debug("GT bar %p\n", gtt_bar);
 	ret = gma_pm_init_pre_vbios(gtt_bar);
-- 
2.2.0.rc0.207.ga3a616c



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