Michael wrote:

> checks when mapping things - this works well on x86 but fails horribly
> on macppc. This leaves two possible solutions - hack XFree to use
> /dev/mem for screen memory access or hack the ofb driver to allow more
> memory mappings - like the vga driver does. The cleaner solution is
> obviously to hack ofb and send-pr the result instead of buggering
> XFree.

I think hacking the wscons/ofb part is better and will help future
compatibility with newer releases of X free (or other X implementations
too)

-R