SM501 Frame Buffer driver on PPC

Dan Malek dan at embeddededge.com
Thu Nov 3 15:30:11 EST 2005


On Nov 2, 2005, at 8:40 PM, Absolut Hunter wrote:

> Has anyone used the SM501 driver with this type of NON-Unified memory
> architecture?

What do you mean, non-unified?

>  I am guessing this can be confusing to the driver since the
> frame buffer registers inside the SM501 need to be using offset ZERO 
> instead
> of the 0xF8000000 like the MPC8280 sees.

The SM501 PCI driver assumes the addresses are from the PCI
base address, not from zero.   Properly using the local bus address
in a similar way should work just fine.

Thanks.

	-- Dan




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