Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 19 Oct 2001 20:51:31 +0200 | From | Francois Romieu <> | Subject | Re: pci_alloc_consistent question |
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MEHTA,HIREN (A-SanJose,ex1) <hiren_mehta@agilent.com> : [...] > Is there any limitation on the amount of contiguous dmaable memory that > can be allocated using a single call to pci_alloc_consistent() ?
See comment in arch/i386/kernel/pci-dma.c for pc world: /* * Dynamic DMA mapping support. * * On i386 there is no hardware dynamic DMA address translation, * so consistent alloc/free are merely page allocation/freeing. [...]
It fails as __get_free_pages does.
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