On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 10:30 +0200, Michael Trimarchi wrote: > Hi, > I changed a little bit the vfb module to be used as a frame buffer in > memory. I would like to use the mmap over the virtual framebuffer. I > added a few line: > I allocated the buffer using > videomemory=(void *)__get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL, > get_order(PAGE_ALIGN(videomemorysize))); > > and fixed the framebuffer info structure: > > vfb_fix.smem_start = virt_to_phys(videomemory); > vfb_fix.smem_len = videomemorysize; > > What is the virtual frame buffer meant for?
For testing, and some uses it as a skeleton for another driver. Tony - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
