Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 06 Apr 2005 10:30:04 +0200 | From | Franck Bui-Huu <> | Subject | Re: [BOOTMEM] bad physical address convertions. |
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Dave Hansen wrote:
>I suggest using something like discontigmem (or even sparsemem for that >matter) to properly handles holes in your address space. > > > I don't agree with you. First I don't see any advantages to use "discontigmem" just because physical ram address doesn't start to 0. I would embed and run extra code that is not needed for my case. Secondly, even if you're right, code that uses "addr >> PAGE_SHIFT" are by-passing mm api, that is somehow a hack....
Cheers.
Franck
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