From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@yahoo.com>
Cc: Otto Solares <solca@guug.org>,
Linux Fbdev development list
<linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: ioremap problem on highmem
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 18:46:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1066236404.662.60.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20031014004651.36307.qmail@web14914.mail.yahoo.com>
> The more I learn about fbconsole the more I think it is a bad idea. This is no
> comment on the skill of the people writing it, I just think the whole concept
> of mapping the framebuffer in to kernel space needs to be eliminated. There is
> only 1GB of kernel space and it make no sense to chew up 128MB or 256MB of it
> mapping a framebuffer just to get a penguin at boot. I do think penguin is
> cute, but not cute enough to waste kernel address space on.
Can you think about non-x86 please ? Most of them don't have anything
remotely like VGA / BIOS
Ben.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-10-15 16:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-13 19:18 ioremap problem on highmem Otto Solares
2003-10-13 20:30 ` Jon Smirl
2003-10-14 0:14 ` Otto Solares
2003-10-14 0:46 ` Jon Smirl
2003-10-14 1:56 ` Otto Solares
2003-10-14 4:51 ` Jon Smirl
2003-10-15 1:13 ` Otto Solares
2003-10-15 1:37 ` Jon Smirl
2003-10-15 23:11 ` James Simmons
2003-10-16 10:15 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-10-16 16:56 ` Otto Solares
2003-10-17 16:58 ` James Simmons
2003-10-14 8:30 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-10-14 8:34 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-10-14 14:42 ` Jon Smirl
2003-10-14 17:25 ` James Simmons
2003-10-14 17:23 ` James Simmons
2003-10-14 16:49 ` James Simmons
2003-10-14 17:59 ` Jon Smirl
2003-10-15 23:17 ` James Simmons
2003-10-16 0:34 ` Jon Smirl
2003-10-16 10:12 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-10-16 0:43 ` I2C standalone vs integrated? Jon Smirl
2003-10-16 10:14 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-10-17 16:43 ` James Simmons
2003-10-16 10:09 ` ioremap problem on highmem Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-10-15 16:46 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
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