From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sven Luther Subject: Re: Large framebuffers and HIGHMEM systems Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 18:33:11 +0200 Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <20030910163311.GA20523@iliana> References: <20030910155603.GA15485@iliana> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx1-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.11] helo=sc8-sf-mx1.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Cipher TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 19x7ue-0003mn-00 for ; Wed, 10 Sep 2003 09:33:48 -0700 Received: from smtp7.wanadoo.fr ([193.252.22.29] helo=mwinf0201.wanadoo.fr) by sc8-sf-mx1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 19x7ud-0001Z4-Pn for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Wed, 10 Sep 2003 09:33:47 -0700 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Sven Luther , Jon Smirl , fb-devel On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 06:21:45PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 08:01:00AM -0700, Jon Smirl wrote: > > > Besides, we are going that have to do something, we are likely to have 1GB > > > video cards two years from now. > > > > We already have 512MB ones, i guess you will not have to wait for as > > long as two years for 1GB video cards. > > Great! > > So I can speed up my poor 128 MB PPC machine by buying such a card and swapping > to the unused portion of the video RAM, instead of trying to find real 2-bank > SDRAM DIMMs :-) They don't come as PCI versions yet though. Friendly, Sven Luther ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf