Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 Sep 1998 21:16:59 +0200 (CEST) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: Next round of console patches |
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On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > On Wed, Sep 02, 1998 at 06:56:06PM +0200, Gerd Knorr wrote: > > Does it really mean the video memory and mmio overlap? Or is this some > > larger area (say 16 MB space) for graphics I/O with the framebuffer (say 4 > > MB) at the start and 1k MMIO at the end and some unused space inbetween? > > Unfortunately for the Mach64s, the MMIO registers really overlap with the > memory, and thus the last 1-2 kilobytes of the video ram are not useable.
But you can disable it. One day atyfb should do that. <evil> There doesn't seem to be a hurry, though, as no one uses it on little endian architectures yet (AFAIK) </evil>
Greetings,
Geert
-- Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/ Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
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