From: "Juan J. Quintela" <quintela@fi.udc.es>
>
> Notice that this behaviour happens also in my box where there is no
> ISA cards at all, and I have to wait for a page to become free in the
> DMA zone. Is there some way to need a DMA page in a machine without
> any ISA card? If not, it could be a good Idea to have only one zone
> in machines that haven't ISA cards and have less than 1GB of RAM.
>
How do you want to find out that a box has no ISA card?
Additionally, the floppy disk needs GFP_DMA memory and IIRC some non-ISA
sound cards have < 32 (28?) address lines.
--
Manfred
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