Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2014 06:52:15 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> Cc: Justin Hibbits <jhibbits@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: newcons fb driver Message-ID: <42130.1393829535@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <CAJ-Vmo=jCGUxXs_GBoCm581wTouozWE=AQ3x1wBKYM_J3_dGrg@mail.gmail.com> References: <20140302085511.6354f9ac@zhabar.gateway.2wire.net> <CAJ-Vmo=jCGUxXs_GBoCm581wTouozWE=AQ3x1wBKYM_J3_dGrg@mail.gmail.com>
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In message <CAJ-Vmo=jCGUxXs_GBoCm581wTouozWE=AQ3x1wBKYM_J3_dGrg@mail.gmail.com> , Adrian Chadd writes: >.. i'm pretty sure there was a reason for why it's done in byte sizes. >Maybe speak to phk? Buggy video hardware, which does not do larger writes correctly, the most recent one being an Intel Laptop, but I can't remember which. At the very least, byte writes needs to be a boot-time option. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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