From owner-freebsd-emulation Wed Sep 25 04:53:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-emulation Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id EAA23935 for emulation-outgoing; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 04:53:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id EAA23782 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 04:53:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id VAA09253; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 21:22:35 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199609251152.VAA09253@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: New doscmd available for testing/munching To: root@abel.pdmi.ras.ru (Alexey Pialkin) Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 21:22:35 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, j_mini@efn.org, emulation@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199609251122.PAA09645@abel.pdmi.ras.ru> from "Alexey Pialkin" at Sep 25, 96 03:22:13 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-emulation@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Alexey Pialkin stands accused of saying: > > Actually, you mmap /dev/vga which roots at the base of video memory. This > > is much cleaner, not to mention safer. > > BTW, why ? Because you're mapping the video card's memory, not "generic memory". If the card is somewhere else, then you don't have to worry about it. If Soren wakes up and changes it just a little bit, you will _only_ be able to map the region of memory that the card decodes into. > BTW, we don't need to compare somthing for ncurses - it makes all automatic > & redraw quite nice... At least on my home my new unoptimized ncurses support > works much faster than Xs :).. But that's not a surprise :) Hmm? I presume you are using ncurses' internal compare-and-redraw algorithm then 8) > Interesting. I have missed that. What can madvise do that can help us ? I'm really not sure; that's likely to depend on what JD has to say. > > -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[