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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)
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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