Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 11 Sep 2008 04:35:08 -0500 | From | Robin Holt <> | Subject | Re: 8MB physical memory allocation |
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On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 09:30:05PM -0700, Alessio Sangalli wrote: > Hi, I'm writing a driver for a video adapter that needs to allocate 8MB > (maximum resolution) in physical, contiguos memory. I am working on a > ARM9 platform.
Not sure about arm9, but on ia64, alloc_pages does the trick.
alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL, 33-PAGE_SHIFT);
Might be slightly large of an allocation for any time other than boot, but that is the call.
Thanks, Robin
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