Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 21 Oct 1999 17:13:11 -0700 (PDT) | | From | Dan Hollis <> | | Subject | Re: mm and DMA devices |
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On Thu, 21 Oct 1999 kernel@kvack.org wrote: > On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Jens David wrote: > > What is this GFP_DMA32 thing? As of 2.2.13ac14 I could not find any > > definition nor reference. > It isn't implemented yet. The way things are setup currently (normal > kernel allocations get non-high, 32 bit addressable memory) will probably > stay in place for a while.
Has anyone looked at Zygo Blaxell's <uixjjji1@umail.furryterror.org> elegant proposal for handling allocations?
http://kernelnotes.org/lnxlists/linux-kernel/lk_9907_02/msg00702.html
This looks like it will handle any possible alignment and addressing restrictions for any device on any architecture.
-Dan
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