Messages in this thread | | | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Date | Thu, 1 Apr 1999 18:12:44 +0100 (BST) | Subject | RE: Address spaces on a i386 - Getting Confused |
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Hi,
On Thu, 1 Apr 1999 09:11:55 -0500 , Eric Lowe <ELowe@SYSTRAN.com> said:
> How about a dmamalloc() function?
In the kernel, use GFP_DMA for dma-capable, physically contiguous memory (only for ISA dma right now, as that is limited to 16MB; PCI can always dma all of physical memory right now, as we don't support more than 4G physical ram on Intel). In user space, use valloc() to get page-aligned memory.
--Stephen
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