Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 08 Dec 1999 20:03:15 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Getting big areas of memory, in 2.3.x? |
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Guys,
What's the best way to get a large region of DMA'able memory for use with framegrabbers and other greedy drivers?
Per a thread on glx-dev, Andi Kleen mentions that the new 2.3.x MM stuff still doesn't allieviate the need for bigphysarea and similar patches.
Is there there any way a driver can improve its chance of getting a large region of memory? ie. can it tell the system to force out user pages to make memory available, etc.
Thanks,
Jeff
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