Re: Next round of console patches

Philip Blundell (philb@gnu.org)
Tue, 01 Sep 1998 20:44:31 +0100


>vesafb does _not_ lookup the framebuffer base address and size in PCI
>space, but uses the value returned by the VBE 2.0 BIOS calls.

It will still presumably be the same space though, so having its MTRR settings
fiddled with can have bad effects regardless of how it's discovered.

p.

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