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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.4.21-rc1] vesafb with large memory
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Thomas Backlund <tmb@iki.fi>
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On Iau, 2003-05-01 at 13:00, Thomas Backlund wrote:
> but there are programs that benefits from the "extra" memory...
> this according to Antonino Daplas...
> (AFAIK double/triple buffering is one thing...)

I've actually looke through the traces  for some situations
and the "how much memory" case is reporting banked RAM on some 
cards so you don't know that RAM exists.

The change proposed is definitely correct for the default. Whether
you want to support overriding it I don't know - I'm not worried
either way.