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

[Rene Rebe]

On 15.01.2009, at 14:08, Jamie Lokier wrote:

> 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.


But only with ypan enabled, which wasn't the default when I took a  
look the
last time.

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