Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Proposal: Eliminate GFP_DMA | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 28 Feb 2003 16:45:02 +0000 |
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On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 15:34, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > If we're going to really sort this out, would be nice to just pass an upper > bound for an address to __alloc_pages, instead of a simple bitmask ;-)
Not all systems work out that way. Some ARM for example have a memory window rather than a range. It does solve most platforms so its definitely the right basic feature to have and let awkward boxes overload it.
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