> Memory is getting so inexpensive in some environments, wouldn't it make
> sense to have an option to reserve DMA-able memory at init time? With 16
> megs going for $60, it is worth setting aside 4megs or 8 megs which would
> have to be specially requested.
Another way to think of that is that at this price, with 5 million
Linux users, 1 byte of memory per user is worth $20. 1K in the kernel
is worth $20K.
So saving memory is indeed worth it!
-- -Colin