Re: bigphysarea in 2.2

Stephen Williams (steve@icarus.icarus.com)
Sat, 11 Apr 1998 13:59:47 -0600

linker@nightshade.ml.org said:
> I'de also like to suggest someone put in the option of hard allocating
> DMA bufferspace at the kernel command line..

There is the separate question of whether or not there should be multiple
generic heaps. Windows NT (sorry folks, know thy enemy) does this to a
degree with the plethora of allocation functions.

I don't know the answer.

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