From owner-freebsd-multimedia Tue Aug 18 23:24:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA28805 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 23:24:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [209.133.7.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA28799; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 23:24:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA06035; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 23:22:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <199808190622.XAA06035@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Randall Hopper cc: Roger Hardiman , ahasty@rah.star-gate.com, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, sos@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Putting the bt848 driver into the GENERIC kernel In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 13 Aug 1998 07:22:47 EDT." <19980813072247.A27067@ct.picker.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 23:22:59 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org For a loaded driver without a frame buffer when a window is occluded you can disable video capture since that operation requires physical memory to be allocated to the driver. Additionally, the act of loading / unloading a bt848 lkm can set/unset a boot flag to allocate memory for the driver so if the user desires to use a frame buffer for vic or fxtv the memory will be available after rebooting. The memory can be released if the driver is not loaded during system startup. Amancio To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message