On Wed 03/22/06 at 15:07 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > XHAT is a giant kludge which was created for the Zulu graphics driver, > which is its only consumer. The Zulu device was created back when Sun was > still trying to do their own graphics cards :) and it was special because > it had a full-blown MMU onboard. XHAT allowed it to directly access the > kernel's virtual to physical mappings in a safe manner, which can't be > done through the usual methods like the DDI.
To which I would add: please don't use it. Someday the hardware will be EOLed, allowing us to excise XHAT - assuming it doesn't pick up any consumers before then. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-code mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/opensolaris-code
