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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!news2.near.net!news.delphi.com!usenet From: John Dyson <dysonj@delphi.com> Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Does FreeBSD support memory mapping? Date: Thu, 11 Aug 94 15:15:41 -0500 Organization: Delphi (info@delphi.com email, 800-695-4005 voice) Lines: 14 Message-ID: <By4QsNV.dysonj@delphi.com> References: <32dm0hINN2pp@gambier.ugrad.cs.ubc.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: bos1b.delphi.com X-To: Markus Meister <h5h1@rick.cs.ubc.ca> Markus Meister <h5h1@rick.cs.ubc.ca> writes: >in a FAQ somewhere please point me to it. Otherwise, does it? I was told that >the P9000 server for XFree86 3.1 should work fine with FreeBSD as long >as it supports memory mapping, so I need to know (if I have to buy a new >card. sigh.) FreeBSD currently does support device_pager memory mapping (and I think that *BSD in general does.) There were some problems earlier on in early early versions of *BSD (device_pager was not quite up to it.) FreeBSD V2.0 will of course also support the device_pager mapping. John dyson@implode.root.com