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