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From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 00:05:04 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH] (2.4.x bk) efi_memmap_walk_uc
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>>>>> On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 18:56:15 -0500 (CDT), Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com> said:

  Jack> If granularity is bytes, we need to support page-aligned
  Jack> allocations. Fetchop pages are mmap'ed to user space.

I see.  But then EFI-page-aligned memory won't do you no good either
(i.e., you'd need a PAGE_SIZE-based allocator).  Alternatively, just
allocated PAGE_SIZE+1 extra bytes and do the alignment yourself?

	--david