> On Sun, 30 Mar 1997, Harald Koenig wrote:
> > well, could anyone please fix the floppy device driver as we sometimes
> > get
> >
> > Unable to allocate DMA memory
> That is not exactly the same problem in my opinion.
> ISA DMA capable interfaces need bounce buffers. Such hardwares have been
> designed when machines had very fiew memory and generally have very low
> performances.
> Making available a small pool of about 100K or a fiew more for such hardware
> is not expensive and should work with normal performance.
maybe Mark Hemment's VM implementation (which does page reaping) solves
this problem too?
-- mingo