Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] fbdev API problems

[Geert U. <ge...@li...>]

On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, Sottek, Matthew J wrote:
> I wrote my
> own character functions that are aware of my memory bank switching, and I
> have a
> mmap function that will use zero page fault handlers to bank switch, map,
> and unmap
> regions to provide a linear appearance to user space. BUT, it seems that the
> logo code,
> and possibly some other things still want to touch the video memory. This
> can't happen!
> I saw reference to an imageblit function in some documents but it may be
> from an older
> implementation. Clearly that is what I need since I cannot allow anyone
> outside my driver
> to directly access memory pointers.

In fact imageblit is from a newer implementation, and meant for 2.5.x.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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