From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965724AbXDEJaM (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Apr 2007 05:30:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965275AbXDEJaM (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Apr 2007 05:30:12 -0400 Received: from ms01.sssup.it ([193.205.80.99]:42576 "EHLO sssup.it" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965584AbXDEJaF (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Apr 2007 05:30:05 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 3600 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2007 05:30:04 EDT Message-ID: <4614B388.7050002@gandalf.sssup.it> Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 10:30:00 +0200 From: Michael Trimarchi User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: vfb module Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, I changed a little bit the vfb module to be used as a frame buffer in memory. I would like to use the mmap over the virtual framebuffer. I added a few line: I allocated the buffer using videomemory=(void *)__get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL, get_order(PAGE_ALIGN(videomemorysize))); and fixed the framebuffer info structure: vfb_fix.smem_start = virt_to_phys(videomemory); vfb_fix.smem_len = videomemorysize; What is the virtual frame buffer meant for? Regards Michael