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SubjectRe: [UPDATE] 2.4.10-pre2 PCI64, API changes README
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> If mmap()'ing the frame buffer and passing this into read() is how
> this will be done, it simply won't work. That's the point I'm trying
> to make.

That isnt done anyway - the card executes a risc instruction set for the
DMA engine specifying which to skip and draw. So you feed it a base
physical address for the fb via ioctl (yes this needs to be a pci device
bar and offset I suspect) and then tell it about the fb layout and the like
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