From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Conke Hu <conke.hu@amd.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>, Jun Sun <jsun@junsun.net>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: Can Linux live without DMA zone?
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 13:09:26 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1162472966.11965.180.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FFECF24D2A7F6D418B9511AF6F358602F2D5DF@shacnexch2.atitech.com>
Ar Iau, 2006-11-02 am 18:33 +0800, ysgrifennodd Conke Hu:
> Most PCs do not have ISA or floppy, so maybe we could add an option to enable DMA zone or not.
Lots of hardware still needs memory below the 2GB boundary, or for
floppy etc (which is common) in the low 16MB. People are still shipping
wireless hardware with these kind of limits even today.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-02 13:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-02 10:33 Can Linux live without DMA zone? Conke Hu
2006-11-02 10:51 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-02 13:09 ` Alan Cox [this message]
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2006-11-02 3:43 Conke Hu
2006-11-02 7:13 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-11-02 16:13 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-02 2:15 Jun Sun
2006-11-02 9:16 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-02 10:32 ` Paul Mundt
2006-11-02 16:32 ` Phillip Susi
2006-11-02 16:57 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-02 19:08 ` Phillip Susi
2006-11-02 20:10 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-02 21:26 ` Phillip Susi
2006-11-02 22:19 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-02 23:17 ` Jun Sun
2006-11-02 23:24 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-11-06 2:19 ` Phillip Susi
2006-11-03 17:54 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2006-11-02 18:02 ` Alan Cox
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