Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 15 Dec 1999 06:39:59 +0000 (UTC) | From | Adam Fritzler <> | Subject | Re: bigphysarea in 2.3? |
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Are the command lines to the e820 code documented somewhere? Is it documented how to get a driver to use the allocated blocks?
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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 IMO bigphysarea is superceded in 2.3 by the command line 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 > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ >
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