>>>>> "James" == James A Simmons <jsimmons@acsu.buffalo.edu> writes:
James> On Sat, 29 Jan 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
>> > > vmalloc(GFP_DMA) is needed for DMA drivers > > Will you be able
>> to allocate several megs for DMA?
>>
>> Allocated as random pages - yes. Linear no.
James> And it's useful how?
Lotsa modern hardware will do scatter/gather DMA, very useful indeed.
Jes
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