Re: atyfb in 2.5.51

On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 20:43, David S. Miller wrote:

fbdev is nice, in the specific cases where the device fits the fbdev
model, because once you have the kernel bits you have X support :)

fbdev also can't be used in some situations on x86. Deeply fascinating
things happen on some x86 processors if you execute a loop of code with
an instruction that crosses two different memory types.