Hi,

Rodolphe, I think you sum things up nicely!

> This is simply because there is usually
> no MMU-like features (page tables, memory protection) wrt the graphic
> board memory; so nearly none of the VM mechanisms used for ...

IMHO, KGI should only worry about managing the features of the
hardware--not emulating them and bloating the kernel.  That is 
the domain of GGI (emulating features, not bloat :)

> Well, in fact, from the KGI perspective, I'd like to say that I am
> extremely reluctant to make provision to send all of VRAM to swap on
> VT-switch. In fact, I would be more favorable to use some of the VRAM
> as a swap area... :-)
> 

hehe, I'm more of a textmode kinda guy myself :) I should use
those 64 MB of VRAM for something useful.

Paul

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