From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3850D27C.9291A8E4@ife.ee.ethz.ch> Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 11:14:20 +0100 From: Thomas Sailer MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Getting big areas of memory, in 2.3.x? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Alan Cox Cc: mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Alan Cox wrote: > This is the main point. There are so so few devices that actually _have_ to > have lots of linear memory it is questionable that it is worth paying the > price to allow modules to allocate that way Soundcard hardware wavetable synthesizers come in mind. There are very few cards that do _not_ require multimegabyte contiguous memory. But then again software synthesizers are realizable these days. Tom -- 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/