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SubjectRe: bigphysarea in 2.3?

Are the command lines to the e820 code documented somewhere? Is it
documented how to get a driver to use the allocated blocks?

af

On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Tom Leete wrote:

> 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 IMO bigphysarea is superceded in 2.3 by the command line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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