Hi Handa-san,

On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 5:24 PM Tetsuo Handa
[off-list ref] wrote:

On 2021/08/31 15:48, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

quoted

Furthermore, this restricts the virtual frame buffer size on 64-bit,
too, while graphics cards can have much more than 4 GiB of RAM.

Excuse me, but do you mean that some hardware allows allocating more than
UINT_MAX bytes of memory for kernel frame buffer drivers?

While smem_len is u32 (there have been complaints about such
limitations on 64-bit platforms as far as 10 years ago), I see no
reason why a graphics card with more than 4 GiB of RAM would not be
able to provide a very large virtual screen.

Of course e.g. vga16fb cannot, as it is limited to 64 KiB.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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