Re: Dirty patch saving 260K on Triton

Martin Mares (mj@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Sat, 10 May 1997 10:39:19 +0200


Hi,

> There are programs for DOS (TLBMM, umb_driver) that can enable additional
> memory for many chipsets. On some chipsets that memory (or part of it) is
> DMAble, on some not. Some time ago I wrote a patch that made use of that
> enabled memory. But on some chipsets I have seen problems when memory was
> told to be DMAble and I allowed to use it by DMA under linux. Maybe it
> wasn't REALLY dmable?

DMAbility of this memory is usually settable in configuration registers
of the PCI<->ISA bridge... It will require some testing.

On chipsets where it's impossible, we can simply flag these pages as
non-DMAble.

Martin