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Subject: Re: Discontiguous Memory
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Am Saturday 16 September 2006 02:56 schrieb Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
> =A0- A more annoying one is support for DMA since a lot of devices cannot
> DMA above 32 bits. A lot of 'sane' platforms that provide more memory
> than can be DMA'ed in 32 bits also provide an IOMMU that does page
> translation of incoming DMAs. This isn't your case however, thus you
> would have to implement some of the alternate solutions used on x86_64
> (Intel 64 bits platforms also lack an iommu). This essentially consist
> of defining a ZONE_DMA32 and possibly also using swiotlb to do bounce
> buffering for drivers that don't deal with ZONE_DMA32 yet.

On 32 bit platforms, you normally have ZONE_NORMAL for up to 4G and
ZONE_HIGHMEM beyond, so you don't need an extra ZONE_DMA32.

	Arnd <><