Messages in this thread | | | From | Gerd Knorr <> | Date | Tue, 1 Jun 1999 08:27:35 +0200 | Subject | Re: S3 Frame Buffer |
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> The kernel also needs {check,request,release}_mmio for MMIO regions, > just like {check,request,release} region, so that the vesafb driver > won't start writing to a framebuffer already mapped by a driver before > it.
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> It may be possible to have hardware acceleration in X, if vesafb > correctly specifies the MMIO region.
vesafb doesn't know where the mmio regions are, it only knows where the framebuffer memory starts. You will not get accelerated X with vesafb. And {check,request,release}_mmio would'nt work either...
Gerd
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