Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] mmap method usage

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

On 29 Jan 2002, Emmanuel Michon wrote:
> I derived a fb implementation from vfb and I noticed
> the latter does not implement the mmap() function.
> So I guess X with fbdev does not run on top of vfb...

Indeed not. Until someone ports the mmap() trick from vga256fb
(http://www.kyuzz.org/antirez/vga256fb.html) to vfb.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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