pvr_mem_malloc

Post by **Quzar** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 12:29 am

can I manipulate (read, write, move) the data in the place pointed to by the returned pointer manually? if not, is there a way for me to allocate memory in the PVR's ram for anything that is not a texture?

Post by **BlueCrab** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 1:18 pm

You can, but expect it to be fairly slow (compared to main memory access).

Warmtoe · Post by **Warmtoe** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 3:13 pm

Now I see what your MAME idea was - I had to do something similar for Simpsons!

Post by **Quzar** » Thu Dec 09, 2004 3:41 pm

Warmtoe wrote: Now I see what your MAME idea was - I had to do something similar for Simpsons!

hehe, yea. i'm thinking of setting it up so that there is a new variable in the region struct that will be set in the rom loading part of the driver (where it sets what files get loaded into what regions) and have it load the sound files into the pvr ram =P.

i have yet to get this to work on any game larger than the total main ram size though, which leads me to believe i havnt changed things properly =\.

any tips you can give me?