Re: Can Linux live without DMA zone?

From: Paul Mundt
Date: Thu Nov 02 2006 - 05:33:00 EST


On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 06:15:47PM -0800, Jun Sun wrote:
> The fundamental question is: Has anybody tried to run Linux without 0 sized
> DMA zone before? Am I doing something that nobody has done before (which is
> something really hard to believe these days with Linux :P)?
>
There's patches that rip out ZONE_DMA for platforms that don't have a DMA
limitation (and were pretty much putting all of ZONE_NORMAL in ZONE_DMA),
all of these are already in -mm.
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