vram_blit_ copies a 1-bpp rectangle from RAM to VRAM. The manual has no L,L
variant, so the destination is XY and the hardware forms the address:
B0=SADDR B1=SPTCH B2=DADDR(XY) B3=DPTCH=0x800 B4=OFFSET=0x04000000
B7=DYDX PSIZE=1 PMASK=0 CONVSP=CONVDP=0x14 CONTROL raster-op=0
SPTCH is a parameter because 0 makes every row read the same source address,
which is how one expanded row can be stamped eight times down the screen.
The .bss region in the linker command grows from 0x40000 to 0x200000 address
units (32 KB -> 256 KB) so a 1280x1024 1-bpp frame buffer (163840 B) fits; the
previous .coff had been built from sources that were not yet committed.
bench-sweep.sh gains its executable bit.
Byte stores to VRAM measure 2284 ms per 1280x1024 frame on the real unit
(0.44 fps) -- about a scanline period per byte, i.e. almost no access through
the arbiter. vram.asm now drives the GSP's array engine instead: FILL L with
DADDR/DPTCH/DYDX/COLOR1 (B2/B3/B7/B9), PSIZE=1, PMASK=0 and PPOP=0, per the
TMS34010 User's Guide's implied-operand table, with CONTROL read-modify-written
so CD/RM/RR survive.
Measured: 32.7 ms/frame, 30.6 fps on the unit; 27.1 ms in MAME (74x over byte
stores there, 70x on hardware). 2,508,224 destination words/s = 0.40 us/word.
Consequence for video: a full uncompressed frame is wire-limited at 8 fps
(163840 B at 1.27 MB/s); a small source expanded on the device is limited by
the ~33 ms transfer, i.e. ~30 fps full screen if the expansion uses PIXBLT.
build-lance.sh assembles vram.asm and links VRAM.obj; MARK moved to 0x01A00000
because .text had come within 146 bytes of it.
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