Re: framebuffer stuff in v2.1.109

Martin Mares (mj@albireo.ucw.cz)
Sat, 18 Jul 1998 15:53:51 +0200

> I'd have to agree; putting in extra stuff might bloat this part of the
> kernel. As a thought, is this one of the areas that the kernel jettions
> after booting to free up memory?

Yes, but do we really want adding of few hundred lines of assembly
just for sake of nicer user-interface?

Have a nice fortnight

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Martin `MJ' Mares   <mj@ucw.cz>   http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/
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