From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 12:51:16 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: the new VMt In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Oliver Xymoron Cc: MM mailing list , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Oliver Xymoron wrote: > Sure about that? It's been a while, but I seem to recall NT enforcing a > scatter-gather framework on all drivers because it only gave them virtual > allocations. For the cheaper cards, the s-g was done by software issuing > single span requests to the card. The Matrox framegrabber guys use some API under NT to allocate megabytes upon megabytes of contiguous memory for DMA. Jeff -- 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/