Re: Updated 2.3.x job list (its getting shorter)

From: Jes Sorensen (Jes.Sorensen@cern.ch)
Date: Mon Jan 31 2000 - 04:48:22 EST


>>>>> "Jamie" == Jamie Lokier <lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk> writes:

Jamie> Jes Sorensen 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.
>>> And it's useful how?
>> Lotsa modern hardware will do scatter/gather DMA, very useful
>> indeed.

Jamie> How much hardware can do _ISA_ scatter/gather DMA?

-ENOCOFFEE ;-)

But then again, expecting to be able to allocate MB's contigous ISA
space is kinda silly since there is just a total of 16MB to get anyway.

Jes

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