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SubjectRe: bigphysarea in 2.3?
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IMO bigphysarea is superceded in 2.3 by the command line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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