some stuff about controlfb in 2.2

[Ani Joshi]

On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, Michel Lanners wrote:

> I think the better way to handle this would be to provide a
> device-specific mmap function in the framebuffers that benefit from the
> changed caching. On Macs, all unaccelerated framebuffers should fall
> under that category.

The framebuffer device API can handle this, write a controlfb_mmap() and
set the fb_mmap pointer in fb_ops to it.


ani

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