Re: Sound error: Couldn't allocate DMA buffer

Dan Hollis (goemon@sasami.anime.net)
Sun, 11 Apr 1999 01:16:50 -0700 (PDT)


On Sun, 11 Apr 1999, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> Anyone know how difficult a hack it would be to add the ability to rope
> off 1meg or so of <16MB ram for such buffers at boot time?

It would probably be good for someone to add a kernel parameter, to
reserve a percentage of RAM from total ram, as ISA DMA buffers.

-Dan

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