Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] ioremap problem on highmem

[Benjamin H. <be...@ke...>]

> The more I learn about fbconsole the more I think it is a bad idea. This is no
> comment on the skill of the people writing it, I just think the whole concept
> of mapping the framebuffer in to kernel space needs to be eliminated. There is
> only 1GB of kernel space and it make no sense to chew up 128MB or 256MB of it
> mapping a framebuffer just to get a penguin at boot. I do think penguin is
> cute, but not cute enough to waste kernel address space on.

Can you think about non-x86 please ? Most of them don't have anything
remotely like VGA / BIOS

Ben.