Hi Alan.
>> What is the Right Way[tm] as of 2.4.6 to allocate 16Mb as 4K
>> pages and get the pci bus address for each page? Bonus points
>> is they're virtually contiguous, but that's not necessary.
>> IIRC, the old vmalloc-then-walk-the-pagetables trick is
>> considered out-of-bounds nowadays.
> If you want it virtually contiguous then copy the code from bttv
> that out-of-bounds or otherwise is now found in about 8 drivers
> in the kernel.
Would it be useful to turn that particular code into a subroutine that
is called from each driver, or would that cause other problems?
Best wishes from Riley.
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