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	Rupesh S <rupeshs@myw.ltindia.com>
From: Dan Malek <dan@embeddededge.com>
Subject: Re: Why not kmalloc() ??
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 09:29:36 -0400
To: Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se>
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On Jul 16, 2004, at 7:34 AM, Magnus Damm wrote:

> kmalloc allocates from the kernel memory pool, ie your sdram.
> you usually have several megabytes of sdram.
> hostalloc allocates memory from the internal dpram area in the mpc8xx

No, it does not.  hostalloc allocates from the processor sdram, it
is not cached.

	-- Dan


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