vram boot option
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PATCH 1/1 vram boot option
Hi Linus,
could we either change that boot opion to "vram:" to be equal to 2.4 or should we change 2.4 to be equal to 2.6.7-bk? I guess we should do the 1st.
I'm speaking about this one:
http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5/gnupatch@40ba1aa0CbdwIRz9E1pww0NREOd4nQ
And document the option, please!
ciao, Marc
Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt +4 -0
@@ -146,6 +146,10 @@ pmipal Use the protected mode interface mtrr setup memory type range registers for the vesafb framebuffer. +vram:n remap 'n' MiB of video RAM. If 0 or not specified, remap memory + according to video mode. (2.5.66 patch/idea by Antonino Daplas + reversed to give override possibility (allocate more fb memory + than the kernel would) to 2.4 by [email protected]) Have fun!
drivers/video/vesafb.c +1 -1
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ int __init vesafb_setup(char *options) mtrr=1 ; else if (! strcmp(this_opt, "nomtrr")) mtrr=0 ; - else if (! strncmp(this_opt, "vram=", 5)) + else if (! strncmp(this_opt, "vram:", 5)) vram =simple_strtoul (this_opt+5 ,NULL ,0 ); }return 0 ;