FB model basic issues (WAS: radeon, apertures & memory mapping)

Wed Mar 16 13:00:26 PST 2005

On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 21:51 +0200, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> 
> One thing just popped to my head though. If in the future we are going to 
> allow graphics cards to render to system memory, using the swapper will no 
> longer work. I don't see any other solution that having the CPU perform 
> the byte swapping.

Sane hardware should have a way to deal with this as well. Either way,
this is hardware specific, so it will probably have to be handled by the
hardware driver(s) somehow.

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