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From: Kevin Hilman <kevin@hilman.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: ioremap() >= 128Mb (was: Memory problem with bttv driver)
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 15:39:05 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sn63tbzq.fsf@bugs.hilman.org> (raw)

I followed the 'Memory problem with bttv driver' thread from the
archives and was curious if there was any resolution.

The basic problem is that I have a machine with 1G physical memory and
a device with an 128Mb of on-board memory that I would like to
ioremap().  Of course, since VMALLOC_RESERVE is 128Mb this will always
fail if there have been any previous calls to vmalloc() or ioremap()
(which is aways true when the driver loads as a module.)

So far I have a few workarounds, but no good long term solution.
- boot the kernel with less than 1G on cmdline: mem=768M
- hack VMALLOC_RESERVE 

Is it reasonable to make VMALLOC_RESERVE be configurable at boot-time
instead of compile time?

Or, is there a better way to get memory-mapped access to all of the
devices on-board memory?

Thanks.
-- 
Kevin Hilman <kevin@hilman.org>

             reply	other threads:[~2002-04-10 22:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-10 22:39 Kevin Hilman [this message]
2002-04-11  5:38 ` ioremap() >= 128Mb (was: Memory problem with bttv driver) Martin J. Bligh

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