Re: Large (~2MB) PCI-DMA buffer

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Pauline Middelink wrote:
> 2. Use __get_free_pages() for a range of pages. This will fail
> eventualy when the memory gets more and more fragmented.

Note: this works to just under 128k blobs of memory. (Or am I showing
my lack of 2.3-kernel-reading again?)

                        Roger.

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