The odds of even 128,000 working on a small machine except close to boot
are low too.
> I also add that I'm beggining kernel programming, and I'm using the books
> from Rubini and M. Beck et al, and both point outs the limit for kmalloc
> at slightly less than 32 pages (128 KB on the Intel).
I guessed you may be, thats why I pointed you at vmalloc. vmalloc memory
isnt physically linear but is logically linear (that is DMA can see the
different but the kernel cant). If you use vmalloc/vfree instead of
kmalloc/kfree your 128000 will work fine andn reliably
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