Re: [PATCH] svgalib error in mmap documentation

2001-01-07 Thread Christoph Rohland
Matan Ziv-Av <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I hope it is reasonable to ask, how? > > What I need is to allocate a big amount of memory (say 1MB, for > example), copy the video memory to it, and then have fixed 64K of > virutal address of the process point to any 64K window of the large > allocate

Re: [PATCH] svgalib error in mmap documentation

2001-01-06 Thread Alan Cox
> I hope it is reasonable to ask, how? POSIX shared memory calls or sys5 shm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [PATCH] svgalib error in mmap documentation

2001-01-06 Thread Matan Ziv-Av
On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > +If you want svgalib programs to run with kernel 2.4.0 or newer, svgalib > > +needs to be compiled without background support (BACKGROUND not defined in > > +Makefile.cfg). This is relevant to any svgalib version. > > +This is because svgalib uses mmap of/p

Re: [PATCH] svgalib error in mmap documentation

2001-01-06 Thread Alan Cox
> +If you want svgalib programs to run with kernel 2.4.0 or newer, svgalib > +needs to be compiled without background support (BACKGROUND not defined in > +Makefile.cfg). This is relevant to any svgalib version. > +This is because svgalib uses mmap of /proc/mem to emulate vga's memory bank > +swit

[PATCH] svgalib error in mmap documentation

2001-01-06 Thread Matan Ziv-Av
Hi, svgalib needs to be compiled without background support in order to run under kernl 2.4.0 or newer. Here's a patch to Documentation/Changes that says this. --- /usr/src/linux.b/Documentation/ChangesTue Dec 12 18:43:22 2000 +++ linux/Documentation/Changes Sat Jan 6 10:28:20 200