From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LNRxx-0001de-E1 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 08:08:57 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LNRxs-0001Z7-B3 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 08:08:56 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44465 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LNRxr-0001Yi-W6 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 08:08:52 -0500 Received: from mail2.shareable.org ([80.68.89.115]:49963) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LNRxr-0000DG-KL for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 15 Jan 2009 08:08:51 -0500 Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:08:48 +0000 From: Jamie Lokier Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] [RFC] Variable video ram size option Message-ID: <20090115130848.GB32368@shareable.org> References: <496B965A.9000701@eu.citrix.com> <200901142007.42812.paul@codesourcery.com> <496E4E00.3060105@eu.citrix.com> <200901142130.00991.paul@codesourcery.com> <496E6B93.2080107@eu.citrix.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <496E6B93.2080107@eu.citrix.com> Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org Cc: Paul Brook Trolle Selander wrote: > Maybe "application that uses VBE" was a bad way to put it. If I > re-phrase the question as "Does anyone know whether there's any > application running under the X "vesa" driver or the Windows "Generic > VGA" or similar unaccellerated driver that makes use of a larger than > triple-buffered (xres * yres * 4) linear framebuffer, or whether the > unaccellerated drivers themselves do so in any way?" it will yield more > interesting answers. :) I think the Linux "vesafb" driver uses all available VRAM for scrolling in draws-text-on-graphic-framebuffer mode. -- Jamie