> > +If you want svgalib programs to run with kernel 2.4.0 or newer, svgalib
> > +needs to be compiled without background support (BACKGROUND not defined in
> > +Makefile.cfg). This is relevant to any svgalib version.
> > +This is because svgalib uses mmap of/proc/mem to emulate vga's memory bank
> > +switching when in background, and kernel 2.4.0 stopped supporting this feature.
>
> 2.4 has real support for shared mappings, so you can I suspect do it properly
> now
I hope it is reasonable to ask, how?
What I need is to allocate a big amount of memory (say 1MB, for
example), copy the video memory to it, and then have fixed 64K of
virutal address of the process point to any 64K window of the large
allocated memory. How can I do it?
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