From: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
To: john@vnet.ibm.com, <LINUX-KERNEL@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Reserving large amounts of RAM for busmastering PCI card.
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 18:00:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200107252200.f6PM0IJ01020@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.996053899.5490.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <mailman.996053899.5490.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
> Since the 2.4 kernels introduce the e820map structure, I'd like to
> plug into that infrastructure, and create a new type memory segment
> for this storage (I envisage having more than one segment), but in the
> 2.4.4 kernel (which I am forced to remain with for quite a while) it
> seems not to be used apart from set up at boot time.
Stop reinventing the wheel and take Matt & Pauline's bigphisarea.
http://www.polyware.nl/~middelink/patch/bigphysarea-2.4.4.tar.gz
-- Pete
next parent reply other threads:[~2001-07-25 22:00 UTC|newest]
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2001-07-25 22:00 ` Pete Zaitcev [this message]
2001-07-25 22:05 ` Reserving large amounts of RAM for busmastering PCI card Jeff Garzik
2001-07-26 12:29 ` Pete Zaitcev
2001-07-26 16:32 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-07-30 21:35 ` Pauline Middelink
2001-07-25 8:23 John P. Hartmann
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