Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 6 Oct 2001 22:23:56 -0300 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: %u-order allocation failed |
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On Sun, 7 Oct 2001, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> You are right. Code that allocates more than page and expects it to be > physicaly contignuous is broken by design. Even rewrite the driver or > allocate memory on boot. It will be very hard to audit all drivers for it.
Better buy us all new hardware, then ;)
Some devices really do want physically contiguous buffers for DMA...
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