Messages in this thread |  | | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: SVGA kernel chipset drivers. | Date | Fri, 31 May 1996 09:43:19 +0100 (BST) |
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> I was wondering if there are any plans incorporate any of the major video > card chipsets into low level kernel driver support. SVGALIB at current > has a very limited number of chipsets that it supports not to mention I > would think a low level kernel driver would get better performence out of
Unlikely. The difference between a library driver running with video ram mmap()'d (ie direct access) and io port access and a kernel driver is probably that the kernel driver is slower due to syscall overhead.
> the video hardware. I for one would like to be able to use the features > of my Matrox MGA Millenium in linux :) Then you will have to get Matrox to release specifications for the card.
Alan
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