From owner-freebsd-current Fri May 15 16:42:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA25661 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 15 May 1998 16:42:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (daemon@smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA25637; Fri, 15 May 1998 16:42:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr02.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA16046; Fri, 15 May 1998 16:42:50 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr02.primenet.com(206.165.6.202) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd016023; Fri May 15 16:42:49 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA29972; Fri, 15 May 1998 16:42:46 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199805152342.QAA29972@usr02.primenet.com> Subject: Re: People having problems with X windows? To: dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au (David Dawes) Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 23:42:45 +0000 (GMT) Cc: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, sos@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19980516092352.17035@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> from "David Dawes" at May 16, 98 09:23:52 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [ ... lots of chip quirks ... ] > Mach64 cards have a single window too, with the framebuffer located at > the start and the registers at the top of the 16MB window. I'm not sure > if the newer ones offer an alternative to that or not, but the XFree86 > Mach64 server uses that approach. Older versions mapped a single 16MB > chunk, but current versions map it in two pieces. > > I'm sure that there are other quirky approaches taken with other video > chips too. I take it back. Make it an madvise() argument, and let the people who know the video hardware keep the rogues list accurate. This is too much information available to video programmers but not to kernel rogues list programmers. 8-(. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message