Date: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 11:33:11 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: tinguely@plains.nodak.edu (Mark Tinguely) Cc: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Matrox Meteor & pal... Message-ID: <199512071833.LAA05206@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199512071704.LAA26211@plains.nodak.edu> from "Mark Tinguely" at Dec 7, 95 11:04:18 am
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> it is about impossible to get a new chunk of CONTIGUOUS memory that large > once the system has been running for any length of time. use : > > (3*ROWS*COLS*DEPTH+4095)/4096 + (DEPTH>0?1:0) > > you will need at least 326 pages. Out of curiousity, what would really be invovled in running a driver in its own linear address space so that this wasn't a problem? Or must it be physically contiguous? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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