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From: Lars Koeller <Lars.Koeller@HRZ.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>
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Hi!

Jonh Dyson and I have hacked a DOS fastvid equivalent lkm for 
FreeBSD. It enables VGA banked and VGA linear frame buffer Write 
Combining for Pentium Pro and Pentium-II based mainboards.

It's only a skeleton up to now. You have to figure out the video 
memory base address and size by reviewing the X server startup
output (look into the README)!

Up to now this lkm lacks SMP support.

I would be happy to hear from you about any improvement! Perhaps it 
could be integrated into the 3.0-RELEASE. The speedup 
can be quickly tested with xengine or xbench (roughly a factor of 2)!

The URL is

    ftp://ftp.Uni-Bielefeld.DE/pub/systems/FreeBSD/lkoeller/fastvid.tar.gz

Have fun

Lars
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