Re: Allocating a page of memory with a given physical address

["Juan J. Quintela" <quintela@fi.udc.es>]

>>>>> "timur" == Timur Tabi <ttabi@interactivesi.com> writes:

timur> ** Reply to message from "Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com> on Thu, 8 Jun
timur> 2000 22:47:44 +0100


>> No, nor is it likely to be added without a compelling reason.  Why do 
>> you need this?

timur> Unfortunately, it's part of my company's upcoming product, and I can't give a
timur> detailed explanation.  I understand that such a response does not endear me to
timur> the Linux community, but my hands are tied.  All I can say is that all of us
timur> software guys here have given it a lot of thought, and we're absolutely positive
timur> that we need this functionality.   We need to be able to read/write memory to
timur> specific DIMMs.

Try to grep the kernel for mem_map_reserve uses, it does something
similar, and can be similar to what you want to do.  Notice that you
need to reserve the page *soon* in the boot process.

Later, Juan.

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