From: fs.rajat@gmail.com (Rajat Sharma)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: Reserving physical memory in Linux
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 12:57:23 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=dZXYdeenjkPzvcG4mzYWHG4Q0C2yrhpB_LLHs@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin0niBxCRshQRMMJxNSYxq-RDv=LRB++oJ2YOh6@mail.gmail.com>
look at alloc_bootmem and family of function to allocate memory at
boot time, description for same is available in chapter 8 Linux device
drivers.
Rajat
On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Asha R <rd.asha22@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I want to reserve one range of physical memory say from 0x10000000 of?256MB
> in Linux. This region is required for DMA functions alone.
> Please help me understand how we can reserve this in Linux. Can this be
> done?using?boot options or any other?
>
> Regards,
> Asha
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-27 7:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-27 6:59 Reserving physical memory in Linux Asha R
2010-12-27 7:27 ` Rajat Sharma [this message]
2010-12-27 7:31 ` Adam Lee
2010-12-27 9:06 ` Asha R
2010-12-27 9:09 ` Adam Lee
2010-12-28 3:49 ` Bharath H S
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