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Date:      Fri, 15 May 1998 23:38:45 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>
To:        dyson@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au, sos@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: People having problems with X windows?
Message-ID:  <199805152338.QAA29708@usr02.primenet.com>
In-Reply-To: <199805152027.PAA03022@dyson.iquest.net> from "John S. Dyson" at May 15, 98 03:27:52 pm

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> Do you have any "neat tricks" to work around errant info given by
> display adaptors (like the Motion 771???)  (It specifies no prefechable
> regions.)

Sounds like a job for a "rogues list".

If you added the madvise() option, the rogues list could be in user
space, but it'd probably be too FreeBSD specific for it to be useful
to people like David.  It's probably something you'll have to do in
the kernel, as glue between the detection and the reporting.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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