From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@yahoo.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
kronos@kronoz.cjb.net,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Mapping large framebuffers into kernel space
Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2003 20:12:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1062961922.19114.3.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030907182144.87346.qmail@web14906.mail.yahoo.com>
On Sul, 2003-09-07 at 19:21, Jon Smirl wrote:
> I'm beginning to wonder if framebuffers should be mapped into kernel space.
> What's going to happen when I get a 512MB video card? Does the framebuffer have
> to be mapped in the first 1GB of kernel address space?
Yes but it shouldnt be mapping all of it blindly like that. Vesafb was
fixed for this, radeonfb needs fixing
> If the framebuffer is mapped, it's a perfect candidate for a large page table
> entry because it is a very large piece of linear memory that not's going to be paged.
By the time we need to really kernel map 512Mb of frame buffer hopefully
32bit will be dead 8)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-07 19:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-07 18:21 Jon Smirl
2003-09-07 19:12 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2003-09-07 19:26 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2003-09-07 19:42 ` Jon Smirl
2003-09-07 21:18 Jon Smirl
2003-09-07 22:25 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-08 0:17 ` Jon Smirl
2003-09-08 12:28 ` Alan Cox
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