From: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>,
kraxel@suse.de, jsimmons@infradead.org,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use MTRRs by default for vesafb on x86-64
Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 01:02:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030519000249.GA18507@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030518233325.GA8888@mail.jlokier.co.uk>
On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 12:33:25AM +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> My point being that vesafb is used for maximum compatibility, when you
> have no other way to drive an unknown framebuffer. It's the emergency
> backup driver. Shouldn't it be robust when faced with an unknown
> framebuffer type, new or old?
It works just fine. Just you can't enable MTRRs for framebuffer memory.
Losing a bit of performance for what is (by todays standards) a crap
performing card anyways, is no big deal.
Dave
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-18 23:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-15 14:56 [PATCH] Use MTRRs by default for vesafb on x86-64 Andi Kleen
2003-05-15 15:16 ` Dave Jones
2003-05-15 15:20 ` Andi Kleen
2003-05-15 15:25 ` Dave Jones
2003-05-16 20:51 ` Alan Cox
2003-05-18 5:39 ` Andi Kleen
2003-05-18 16:11 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-05-18 20:40 ` Alan Cox
2003-05-18 22:34 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-05-18 22:52 ` Dave Jones
2003-05-18 23:33 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-05-19 0:02 ` Dave Jones [this message]
2003-05-19 0:28 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-05-19 1:24 ` Dave Jones
2003-05-16 22:58 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-05-19 10:37 ` Andi Kleen
2003-05-19 12:26 ` Eric W. Biederman
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2003-05-19 9:16 Etienne Lorrain
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