Re:Also at Anand's (Score 2, Informative)

One definition of a frame buffer is any buffer that stores the contents of an image using individual pixels. Your prefered usage adds on the distinction that the buffer is used to refresh a raster image. I do prefer restricting the use of 'frame buffer' to the memory buffer used to refresh the raster display, but there are other instances where the other definition has been used. The Nuon architecture and programming documentation refers to any memory region that is capable of being displayed or manipulated via pixel DMA as being a frame buffer. Part of this reason is that any image has the potential to be a frame buffer - simply set the channel base to the start of the buffer and set the width and height accordingly.