Re: NT DDK vs. Linux DDI, a practical comparison [long]

Alessandro Rubini (rubini@pop.systemy.it)
Mon, 21 Sep 1998 09:41:57 +0200


Stephen Williams:
> Linux lacks a practical way to get large, physically contiguous regions of
> memory. [...] I'll be pushing the bygphysarea patch once 2.3 starts.

Please note that there's no need for such patch. Instead of modifying the
kernel to tell "bigphysarea=40M" just boot with "mem=24M" and use
proper sw (no patch needed).

I wrote an "allocator.[ch]" staff (also compilable as standalone module)
to manage such high-memory buffers. It's in my drivers, at ftp.systemy.it/pub/develop (pxdrv*, pxc*, adl*).

/alessandro

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