Re: bigphysarea in 2.3?

Tom Leete (tleete@access.mountain.net)
Thu, 16 Dec 1999 02:27:48 +0000


Pauline Middelink wrote:

> If you revered the guy to the alloc_bootmem() interface I could
> seen some light there, but the mem= interface is not the way to
> go (for the casual user at least!)
>
> Unfortuantly alloc_bootmem does not work for modules...
>
> I see definitly some light for the bigphysarea patch, working
> closely together with alloc_bootmem to get its much needed
> memory...

Aha. I went back to read __alloc_bootmem(), now I see what
you mean. Thanks for the tip.

Tom

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