Re: atyfb in 2.5.51

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
11 Dec 2002 21:35:10 +0000

On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 20:43, David S. Miller wrote:
> fbdev is nice, in the specific cases where the device fits the fbdev
> model, because once you have the kernel bits you have X support :)

fbdev also can't be used in some situations on x86. Deeply fascinating
things happen on some x86 processors if you execute a loop of code with
an instruction that crosses two different memory types.

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