Re: DMA APIs gumble grumble

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

> I wish sparc32 hadn't used alloc_resource() as a poor-man's bitmap
> allocator to keep track of IOMMU mappings.  That's where the
> GFP_KERNEL requirement comes from.
> 
> Just use GFP_KERNEL for now, and someone might find the strength
> to remove this problem some day :-)

Well, Anton has a pile of sparc's in a closet... :-)

Ben.


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