From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Kronos <kronos@kronoz.cjb.net>
Cc: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>,
Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@yahoo.com>,
Linux Fbdev development list
<linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: Re: New radeonfb, mostly untested
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 23:07:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1063141651.20501.50.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030909204544.GA16724@dreamland.darkstar.lan>
>
> struct fb_info *framebuffer_alloc(size_t size, struct device *dev) {
> struct fb_info *ret;
>
> ret = kmalloc(sizeof(struct fb_info) + size, GFP_KERNEL);
> if (!ret)
> return NULL;
> memset(ret, 0, sizeof(struct fb_info) + size);
Except I would also make sure that there is some alignement of the
private part, if possible on L1 cache line size
Ben.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-09 21:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-07 16:37 New radeonfb, mostly untested Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-09-07 17:48 ` Kronos
2003-09-07 18:23 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-09-07 18:43 ` Kronos
2003-09-07 18:49 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-09-09 17:18 ` James Simmons
2003-09-09 17:54 ` Kronos
2003-09-09 18:13 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-09-09 19:24 ` Kronos
2003-09-09 19:37 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-09-09 20:45 ` Kronos
2003-09-09 21:07 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2003-09-09 21:52 ` Kronos
2003-09-09 22:08 ` Kronos
2003-09-12 17:44 ` James Simmons
2003-09-12 17:48 ` James Simmons
2003-09-12 22:47 ` Kronos
2003-09-09 20:59 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-09-12 17:46 ` James Simmons
2003-09-07 23:03 ` Kronos
2003-09-08 6:06 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-09-08 19:05 ` Kronos
2003-09-10 16:41 ` Kronos
2003-09-10 16:48 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-09-10 17:46 ` Kronos
2003-09-10 17:50 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-09-10 18:41 ` Kronos
2003-09-10 21:27 ` Kronos
2003-09-10 21:32 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-09-12 17:43 ` James Simmons
2003-09-12 19:36 ` Kronos
2003-09-12 22:20 ` James Simmons
2003-09-12 22:45 ` Kronos
2003-09-14 17:31 ` Kronos
2003-09-14 17:46 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-09-14 18:59 ` Kronos
2003-09-15 0:56 ` Tony
2003-09-15 16:00 ` Kronos
2003-09-14 23:59 ` Tony
2003-09-15 15:55 ` Kronos
2003-09-11 6:03 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-09-11 6:38 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-09-11 6:55 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-09-11 7:05 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-09-12 17:25 ` James Simmons
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