From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LLSf4-0005hg-1Y for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:29:14 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LLSf2-0005gv-HB for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:29:13 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60259 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LLSf2-0005gs-ED for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:29:12 -0500 Received: from smtp.eu.citrix.com ([62.200.22.115]:42375) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LLSf1-0006jl-NQ for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:29:11 -0500 Message-ID: <4967F9C9.3060504@eu.citrix.com> Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:28:41 -0500 From: Trolle Selander MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] [RFC] Variable video ram size option References: <4967A96B.3020902@eu.citrix.com> <200901091716.00827.paul@codesourcery.com> <4967ECA7.6040809@eu.citrix.com> <200901091747.06462.paul@codesourcery.com> In-Reply-To: <200901091747.06462.paul@codesourcery.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Paul Brook wrote: >> Trying hard to think up a use for more than 16 Megs in the current case, >> > > I'm pretty sure the current device allows the guest to do page flipping (using > an oversize virtual framebuffer). > > Paul > I could have sworn I checked that at some point and found that it didn't, but looking at the vgabios code now it looks like it's all implemented. That definitely bumps the useable limit to 32 Megs even in the current case. Thanks for catching this, I'll add it to the fix list. -- Trolle