Re: Proposal: Eliminate GFP_DMA

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Fri Feb 28 2003 - 11:45:02 EST


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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