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  8. Date: Fri, 15 Sep 95 18:01 MDT
  9. From: mat@ardi.com (Mat Hostetter)
  10. To: Jared@cyberspace.com
  11. Cc: executor@nacm.com
  12. Subject: Re: Success w/ SVGAlib Executor
  13. In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950915165355.89A-100000@Ender.cyberspace.com>
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  19. >>>>> "Jared" == Jared Roberts <root@dontmailhere.cyberspace.com> writes:
  20.  
  21.     >>  What we *really* want is SVGAlib support for re-mmap'ing the
  22.     >> frame buffer *after* SVGAlib initialization time to an address
  23.     >> that we specify.  Then we can have super-fast 8bpp graphics
  24.     >> *and* support all screen depths.
  25.  
  26.     Jared> Have you written the SVGAlib writers about it?  The Linux
  27.     Jared> community is genrally open to suggestions for
  28.     Jared> improvement....
  29.  
  30. I emailed to the svgalib mailing list a while ago with this suggestion
  31. and got no responses, but that was email to the (now defunct) finland
  32. list, not to the rutgers list.  I'll try again to the new list.
  33.  
  34. -Mat
  35.  
  36.