Jes Sorensen wrote:
>>>>> vmalloc(GFP_DMA) is needed for DMA drivers
>>>> Will you be able to allocate several megs for DMA?
>>> Allocated as random pages - yes. Linear no.
>> And it's useful how?
> Lotsa modern hardware will do scatter/gather DMA, very useful indeed.
How much hardware can do _ISA_ scatter/gather DMA?
GFP_DMA is for ISA only. The allocator changes are useful for folks
doing 32 bit PCI DMA, but that's not the question that was asked here.
have a nice day,
-- Jamie
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