Re: Next round of console patches

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 1 Sep 1998 19:35:10 +0100 (BST)


> vesafb does _not_ lookup the framebuffer base address and size in PCI
> space, but uses the value returned by the VBE 2.0 BIOS calls.

And where does the vesafb spec say the frame buffer area may be write
gathered or that the palette callback will not flip a bit that puts mmio
where the video memory was and flip it back thus write gathering...

As I said very unlikely. Perhaps you are right.. and it should default to on
unless someone finds problems. Perhaps Im overlay paranoid

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