Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] [RFC] Variable video ram size option

[Jamie Lokier]

Trolle Selander wrote:
> Maybe "application that uses VBE" was a bad way to put it. If I 
> re-phrase the question as "Does anyone know whether there's any 
> application running under the X "vesa" driver or the Windows "Generic 
> VGA" or similar  unaccellerated driver that makes use of a larger than 
> triple-buffered (xres * yres * 4) linear framebuffer, or whether the 
> unaccellerated drivers themselves do so in any way?" it will yield more 
> interesting answers. :)

I think the Linux "vesafb" driver uses all available VRAM for
scrolling in draws-text-on-graphic-framebuffer mode.

-- Jamie