Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Dec 1999 05:22:18 +0000 | From | Tom Leete <> | Subject | Re: bigphysarea in 2.3? |
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Adam Fritzler wrote: > > Is there a way to allocate large (1000kb+) contiguous physical buffers in > 2.3.x? Or is there an equivelent to the bigphysarea patch floating around > for 2.3? > > af
IMO bigphysarea is superceded in 2.3 by the command line interface to David Parsons's e820 work.
The own memory management routines in bigphysarea are not supported and may not be needed. I don't understand the new resource management well enough yet to advise on that.
Tom
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