From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: adaplas@pol.net
Cc: adaplas@hotpop.com, linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [RFC] Video Mode Handling
Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 23:04:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040808230412.6dc16bf4.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200408090944.01414.adaplas@hotpop.com>
"Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@hotpop.com> wrote:
>
> Most fbdev developers are proposing to bring back the per-display var
> structures to ease the difficulty of video mode handling. This proposal
> is countered by a few (notably James) in that it severely increases the
> memory footprint of the kernel.
Surprised.
By how much does this increase the kernel's memory footprint?
And how much simpler would the code be if we were to bring back the
per-display var structures?
IOW: what's the tradeoff here?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-09 6:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-09 1:43 [RFC] Video Mode Handling Antonino A. Daplas
2004-08-09 3:50 ` Jon Smirl
2004-08-09 7:59 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-08-09 14:56 ` Jon Smirl
2004-08-09 6:04 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2004-08-09 7:23 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-08-09 8:03 ` Andrew Morton
2004-08-09 8:10 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-08-09 8:41 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-08-09 8:26 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-08-09 7:59 ` Antonino A. Daplas
2004-08-09 8:08 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
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