Re: Large framebuffers and HIGHMEM systems

On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Sven Luther wrote:

On Wed, Sep 10, 2003 at 08:01:00AM -0700, Jon Smirl wrote:

quoted

Besides, we are going that have to do something, we are likely to have 1GB
video cards two years from now.

We already have 512MB ones, i guess you will not have to wait for as
long as two years for 1GB video cards.

Great!

So I can speed up my poor 128 MB PPC machine by buying such a card and swapping
to the unused portion of the video RAM, instead of trying to find real 2-bank
SDRAM DIMMs :-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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