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Re: RFC: New bus_space routine: bus_space_sync



On Thu 19 Jan 2012 at 11:16:01 -0800, Matt Thomas wrote:
> No.  Since framebuffers can be considered memory, there is a definite
> advantage to mapping them cached.  

Given some gfx cards' gargantuan frame buffers, far bigger than needed
for the actual screen contents, isn't there some driver to add that
extra memory as extra swap, or something like that?

-Olaf.
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