From: Rene Rebe <rene@exactcode.de>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] [RFC] Variable video ram size option
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:37:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5E237914-B830-420A-99BE-4C1959DDFC66@exactcode.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090115130848.GB32368@shareable.org>
On 15.01.2009, at 14:08, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> 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.
But only with ypan enabled, which wasn't the default when I took a
look the
last time.
--
René Rebe - ExactCODE GmbH - Europe, Germany, Berlin
http://exactcode.de | http://t2-project.org | http://rene.rebe.name
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-15 15:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-12 19:13 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] [RFC] Variable video ram size option Trolle Selander
2009-01-14 20:07 ` Paul Brook
2009-01-14 20:41 ` Trolle Selander
2009-01-14 21:30 ` Paul Brook
2009-01-14 22:47 ` Trolle Selander
2009-01-15 13:08 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-01-15 15:37 ` Rene Rebe [this message]
2009-01-15 16:23 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-01-15 17:36 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-01-15 20:57 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-01-15 21:41 ` Gerd Hoffmann
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-01-09 19:45 Trolle Selander
2009-01-10 0:02 ` Paul Brook
2009-01-10 1:26 ` Trolle Selander
2009-01-10 6:45 ` Blue Swirl
[not found] ` <4967E7D7.4040605@eu.citrix.com>
[not found] ` <200901091716.00827.paul@codesourcery.com>
2009-01-10 1:27 ` Trolle Selander
[not found] ` <4967ECA7.6040809@eu.citrix.com>
[not found] ` <200901091747.06462.paul@codesourcery.com>
2009-01-10 1:28 ` Trolle Selander
2009-01-10 1:47 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-01-11 7:53 ` Avi Kivity
2009-01-12 17:43 ` Trolle Selander
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