Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261355AbTEAOt2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2003 10:49:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261358AbTEAOt2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2003 10:49:28 -0400 Received: from mbox2.netikka.net ([213.250.81.203]:12012 "EHLO mbox2.netikka.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261355AbTEAOtY convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 May 2003 10:49:24 -0400 From: Thomas Backlund To: Alan Cox Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.4.21-rc1] vesafb with large memory Date: Thu, 1 May 2003 18:01:38 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <3EB0413D.2050200@superonline.com> <1051790876.21546.10.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <1051790876.21546.10.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200305011801.39014.tmb@iki.fi> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1392 Lines: 40 Viestissä Torstai 1. Toukokuuta 2003 15:07, Alan Cox kirjoitti: > 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. You mean the patch that only looks at videomode, dont you... Well maybe it's best to use it as default, to avoid this bug "out of the box"... But I will remake a patch to ovverride it so that the users who need/want the extra memory to be able to allocate it... since I like the idea of giving the user the choice... The next thing that comes to mind is of course that it need to be done so that you can't kill the system with the vram setting... but that should not be to hard... Thomas -- Thomas Backlund tmb@iki.fi www.iki.fi/tmb - 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/