From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 06:20:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 06:20:48 -0400 Received: from smtp-server4.tampabay.rr.com ([65.32.1.45]:56981 "EHLO smtp-server4.tampabay.rr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 06:20:47 -0400 Message-ID: <3D3D2EBF.6AFB3B18@cfl.rr.com> Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 06:23:59 -0400 From: Mark Hounschell Reply-To: dmarkh@cfl.rr.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.18-lcrs i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: bigphysarea Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org We have a pci reflective memory card that has no hardware scatter/gatter capabilities. Software scatter/gather is to slow for our needs. It has 16mb of mem that needs to be contigously mapped into a user task. We have been using the bigphysarea patch and seems to do what we need for this card. We have been using it sice the beginning to the 2.4 series kernel. My question is, is this patch still nessessary or is there possibly a way do do this now without the patch? Ragards Mark