Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 30 Mar 2001 20:15:20 -0800 (PST) | From | James Simmons <> | Subject | [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: fbcon slowness [was NTP on 2.4.2?] |
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>The console driver does not actually use 2.5MB. Does it make sense to >use an MTRR for the smaller power-of-two region?
If we implement a font cache in the future it could. Also that extra memory is used to allow scrollback. We could break up the size of the region. Have it a*2^n+b*2^(n-1)+c*2^(n-2)+... = 2.5 MB. Isn't math grand :-)
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