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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Byron Stanoszek <gandalf@winds.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Using video memory as system memory
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 16:23:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020411142303.GA120@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0204091816380.13516-100000@winds.org>

Hi!

> Does the kernel support noncontiguous main memory like this, or is it just
> plain impossible to use PCI-mapped memory as main memory?

It might be possible (don't know why it does not work for you), but
bear in mind that PCI is *very* slow compared to your main memory.

[Oh, you might want to add that memory late in boot phase. At begining
of kernel boot, that area is probably not mapped, yet. PCI is
initialized later.]
									Pavel
-- 
(about SSSCA) "I don't say this lightly.  However, I really think that the U.S.
no longer is classifiable as a democracy, but rather as a plutocracy." --hpa

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-04-12  8:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-09 22:24 Using video memory as system memory Byron Stanoszek
2002-04-10 15:00 ` bill davidsen
2002-04-11 14:23 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2002-04-12 10:56   ` Pedro M. Rodrigues
2002-04-12 11:35     ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2002-04-12  7:54 ` Eric W. Biederman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-04-10 15:43 Holzrichter, Bruce
2002-04-10 15:53 ` Byron Stanoszek
2002-04-10 16:12   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2002-04-10 17:10   ` Bruce Harada
2002-04-12 11:54     ` Bruce Harada
2002-04-11 11:28   ` Denis Vlasenko

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