> This indicates someone has broken the memory allocator and it is passing non
> ISA DMA memory to the sound driver. The driver takes great pain to catch this
> because a broken ISA DMA allocator in the kernel is likely to cause
> memory and potentially disk corruption with some old ISA controllers.
exactly how are memory allocators supposed to take care of ISA DMA issues
in 2.3? Manfred already suggested that the new mm/bootmem.c allocator
should first try to allocate >16M addresses.
-- mingo
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