Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2.4.21-rc1] vesafb with large memory | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 01 May 2003 13:07:57 +0100 |
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On Iau, 2003-05-01 at 13:00, Thomas Backlund wrote: > but there are programs that benefits from the "extra" memory... > this according to Antonino Daplas... > (AFAIK double/triple buffering is one thing...)
I've actually looke through the traces for some situations and the "how much memory" case is reporting banked RAM on some cards so you don't know that RAM exists.
The change proposed is definitely correct for the default. Whether you want to support overriding it I don't know - I'm not worried either way.
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