From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <001d01bfdadd$a41dfec0$0a1e18ac@local> From: "Manfred Spraul" References: Subject: Re: shrink_mmap() change in ac-21 Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 19:30:26 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org From: "Juan J. Quintela" Return-Path: To: Rik van Riel , "Juan J. Quintela" Cc: Andrea Arcangeli , Jamie Lokier , Zlatko Calusic , alan@redhat.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu List-ID: > > Notice that this behaviour happens also in my box where there is no > ISA cards at all, and I have to wait for a page to become free in the > DMA zone. Is there some way to need a DMA page in a machine without > any ISA card? If not, it could be a good Idea to have only one zone > in machines that haven't ISA cards and have less than 1GB of RAM. > How do you want to find out that a box has no ISA card? Additionally, the floppy disk needs GFP_DMA memory and IIRC some non-ISA sound cards have < 32 (28?) address lines. -- Manfred -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/