On Tuesday 05 March 2002 01:49 am, you wrote: > > display to screen. Now I don't like telling the bttv driver to allocate > > 12 buffers on startup, because that memory doesn't go away when my > > application stops, it is the kernels and cannot be used for anything > > else. > > That isn't true. bttv 0.7.x releases the kernel memory on close(). > bttv 0.8.x gives you shared anonymous user memory (and locks them using > kiobufs for DMA), which can even get swapped out as long as no DMA xfer > is in flight. > > Gerd Thats what I get for thinkin :). Chris
