Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261245AbTEAMyV (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2003 08:54:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261247AbTEAMyV (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2003 08:54:21 -0400 Received: from pc2-cwma1-4-cust86.swan.cable.ntl.com ([213.105.254.86]:22424 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261245AbTEAMyU (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2003 08:54:20 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.4.21-rc1] vesafb with large memory From: Alan Cox To: Thomas Backlund Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: References: <3EB0413D.2050200@superonline.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1051790876.21546.10.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5) Date: 01 May 2003 13:07:57 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 763 Lines: 18 On Iau, 2003-05-01 at 13:00, Thomas Backlund wrote: > but there are programs that benefits from the "extra" memory... > this according to Antonino Daplas... > (AFAIK double/triple buffering is one thing...) I've actually looke through the traces for some situations and the "how much memory" case is reporting banked RAM on some cards so you don't know that RAM exists. The change proposed is definitely correct for the default. Whether you want to support overriding it I don't know - I'm not worried either way. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/