From: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
To: Alessio Sangalli <alesan@manoweb.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 8MB physical memory allocation
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 04:35:08 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080911093508.GD23082@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48C89ECD.6050900@manoweb.com>
On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 09:30:05PM -0700, Alessio Sangalli wrote:
> Hi, I'm writing a driver for a video adapter that needs to allocate 8MB
> (maximum resolution) in physical, contiguos memory. I am working on a
> ARM9 platform.
Not sure about arm9, but on ia64, alloc_pages does the trick.
alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL, 33-PAGE_SHIFT);
Might be slightly large of an allocation for any time other than boot,
but that is the call.
Thanks,
Robin
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2008-09-11 4:30 8MB physical memory allocation Alessio Sangalli
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