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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: Matrox Meteor & pal...
To: tinguely@plains.nodak.edu (Mark Tinguely)
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> it is about impossible to get a new chunk of CONTIGUOUS memory that large
> once the system has been running for any length of time. use :
> 
> 	(3*ROWS*COLS*DEPTH+4095)/4096 + (DEPTH>0?1:0)
> 
> you will need at least 326 pages.

Out of curiousity, what would really be invovled in running a driver in
its own linear address space so that this wasn't a problem?

Or must it be physically contiguous?


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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