From: Sengan Baring-Gould <sengan@seqnet.net>
  To  : ggi-develop@eskimo.com
  Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 18:43:57 -0600

Re: UMA problem

> >  So I need to be able to tell the fb device that the
> >  framebuffer just changed size... or at least prevent
> >  the memmapping to take over the whole memory
> >  space.
>
> fbcon-kgi.c gets the smem_len size from mmio->psize, so the easiest
> thing would be setting that to something smaller in the MediaGX driver
> (so that programs don't clobber those special bits).

Is that the right way to do this though given that the amount of free
memory
will vary according to the mode set but the fbsize is in the fixed
structure
of fb.c?

Sengan