On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 9 Feb 2000 23:06:04 -0500 (EST), James Simmons
> <jsimmons@acsu.buffalo.edu> said:
>
> >> I agree entirely. Im not sure where it belongs but probablty the
> >> interface you need is something giving you a mapping array of the vmalloc.
> >> kiovecs might actually do for this, Im not sure.
>
> > Is kiovecs related to the material in the paper on the splice I/O model by
> > Larry McVoy?
>
> Yes, it is, although the user-visible push/pull operations won't be in
> place until 2.5.
The question is do I want to use that for this framebuffer device.
Actually any framebuffer device. By the way does anyone know where a complete
paper on the splice I/O model is at. The one at bitmover seems to be
missing a few sections.
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