From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <384EFFD3.8DDCEF8D@mandrakesoft.com> Date: Wed, 08 Dec 1999 20:03:15 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Getting big areas of memory, in 2.3.x? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: Linux Kernel List List-ID: Guys, What's the best way to get a large region of DMA'able memory for use with framegrabbers and other greedy drivers? Per a thread on glx-dev, Andi Kleen mentions that the new 2.3.x MM stuff still doesn't allieviate the need for bigphysarea and similar patches. Is there there any way a driver can improve its chance of getting a large region of memory? ie. can it tell the system to force out user pages to make memory available, etc. Thanks, Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | Just once, I wish we would encounter Building 1024 | an alien menace that wasn't immune to MandrakeSoft, Inc. | bullets. -- The Brigadier, "Dr. Who" -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://humbolt.geo.uu.nl/Linux-MM/