From: Rune Torgersen <runet@innovsys.com>
To: Mark Chambers <markc@mail.com>
Cc: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: Why not kmalloc() ??
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 10:42:15 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1089992535.1546.37.camel@runet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <005d01c46b3e$12adf030$0301a8c0@chuck2>
On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 09:06, Mark Chambers wrote:
> Is there any reason to use m8xx_cpm_hostalloc() over dma_alloc_consistent()
> for a loadable driver (that is, one loaded after VM initialized)?
Yous should even be able to use kmalloc(x, GFP_KERNEL | GFP_DMA)
This works on 82xx CPU's (and is actually used as a replacement for hostalloc
on the rewritten cpm memory allocation stuff that is yet to be released)
Might not work on 8xx though...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-16 15:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-16 9:25 Why not kmalloc() ?? Rupesh S
2004-07-16 10:25 ` kernel 2.4.26 doesn't seem to work with a MPC859T Pedro Aguilar
2004-07-16 11:34 ` Why not kmalloc() ?? Magnus Damm
2004-07-16 12:06 ` sanjeev ramachandran
2004-07-16 13:32 ` Dan Malek
2004-07-16 14:06 ` Mark Chambers
2004-07-16 15:42 ` Rune Torgersen [this message]
2004-07-16 19:03 ` Dan Malek
2004-07-16 19:02 ` Dan Malek
2004-07-16 13:29 ` Dan Malek
2004-07-16 11:46 ` Dan Malek
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2004-07-17 4:51 Rupesh S
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