On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 11:07:04AM -0500, Brian S. Julin wrote:
> > For GBL and OVL to work nicely, we will need some way of allocating offscreen
> > video memory. Any ideas on that ? Should that go into LibGGI or should we push
> > it into an extension ?
>
> If it's going to play nice with SetMode, it'll have to go in the base.
> Else, we have a new AdvancedSetMode and any app using the extension is barred
> from calling vanilla SetMode. That's the only issue I see with extension vs
> core.
Good question. I was wondering about this - about which part of the code is
in charge of allocating video memory. Is it the chipset driver, or
KGI(con) ? There is an issue here when different areas of memory have
different capabilities, for example on i740, the hardware-cursor buffer (if
used) must be in the first 4Mb.
Jim
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