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On Sat, 2007-05-26 at 10:51 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> 
> I know.
> 
> Do you know another way to allocate an aligned chunk of 256 KiB of
> physically
> contiguous memory, possibly a long time after boot up?

kmalloc & a good prayer ? :-0

Ben.