From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: Allocating a page of memory with a given physical address References: <20000608220756Z131165-245+106@kanga.kvack.org> <20000608220756Z131165-245+106@kanga.kvack.org> <20000608222138Z131165-281+94@kanga.kvack.org> From: "Juan J. Quintela" In-Reply-To: Timur Tabi's message of "Thu, 08 Jun 2000 16:58:13 -0500" Date: 09 Jun 2000 00:15:39 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Timur Tabi Cc: Linux MM mailing list List-ID: >>>>> "timur" == Timur Tabi writes: timur> ** Reply to message from "Stephen C. Tweedie" 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. -- In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they are different -- Larry McVoy -- 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/