[PATCH 2/3] video: stm: allocate uncached framebuffer memory as write-combine
Ahmad Fatoum
a.fatoum at barebox.org
Fri Nov 7 13:00:30 PST 2025
For i.MX23 and i.MX28, this makes no difference as the MMU treats
write-combine and uncached the same on ARMv6 and earlier, but on
ARMv7 and above, use of the write combine buffer allows us to spend less
time pushing pixels.
Signed-off-by: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum at barebox.org>
---
drivers/video/stm.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/video/stm.c b/drivers/video/stm.c
index c5dadb823251..da006b7c240f 100644
--- a/drivers/video/stm.c
+++ b/drivers/video/stm.c
@@ -305,8 +305,8 @@ static int stmfb_activate_var(struct fb_info *fb_info)
remap_range(fbi->fixed_screen,
fbi->fixed_screen_size, MAP_UNCACHED);
} else {
- fb_info->screen_base = dma_alloc_coherent(DMA_DEVICE_BROKEN,
- size, DMA_ADDRESS_BROKEN);
+ fb_info->screen_base = dma_alloc_writecombine(DMA_DEVICE_BROKEN,
+ size, DMA_ADDRESS_BROKEN);
if (!fb_info->screen_base)
return -ENOMEM;
fbi->memory_size = size;
--
2.47.3
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