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> On Fri, 31 May 1996, Albert Cahalan wrote:
> > > Unlikely. The difference between a library driver running with
> > > video ram mmap()'d (ie direct access) and io port access and a
> > > kernel driver is probably that the kernel driver is slower due
> > > to syscall overhead.
> >
> > Nope, the kernel can provide a framebuffer device in /dev that
> > programs can mmap. IO port access is less critical.
> >
> > The real reasons for such a driver are reliability and security.
>
> Could we PLEASE stop this framebuffer nonsense?
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> Linus
or bring this nonsense to linux-offtopic :)
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