Re: [RFC] Video Mode Handling

"Antonino A. Daplas" [off-list ref] wrote:

Most fbdev developers are proposing to bring back the per-display var
 structures to ease the difficulty of video mode handling.  This proposal
 is countered by a few (notably James) in that it severely increases the 
 memory footprint of the kernel.  

Surprised.

By how much does this increase the kernel's memory footprint?

And how much simpler would the code be if we were to bring back the
per-display var structures?

IOW: what's the tradeoff here?


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