Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Mapping the framebuffer into kernel space

[James S. <jsi...@ww...>]

> This does imply that we could switch read/write to kernel map VRAM a
> page or two at a time on demand. But this is significant work and I
> don't think there are any apps using read/write. If we find one it
> would just be easier to convert it to mmap than to support read/write
> in the kernel.

Yuck. Why not just us the image blitter for reading and writing the 
framebuffer?