Re: mm and DMA devices

Dan Hollis (goemon@sasami.anime.net)
Thu, 21 Oct 1999 17:13:11 -0700 (PDT)

On Thu, 21 Oct 1999 kernel@kvack.org wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Jens David wrote:
> > What is this GFP_DMA32 thing? As of 2.2.13ac14 I could not find any
> > definition nor reference.
> It isn't implemented yet. The way things are setup currently (normal
> kernel allocations get non-high, 32 bit addressable memory) will probably
> stay in place for a while.

Has anyone looked at Zygo Blaxell's <uixjjji1@umail.furryterror.org>
elegant proposal for handling allocations?

http://kernelnotes.org/lnxlists/linux-kernel/lk_9907_02/msg00702.html

This looks like it will handle any possible alignment and addressing
restrictions for any device on any architecture.

-Dan

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