Re: getting contiguous physical memory

From: Pauline Middelink (middelink@polyware.nl)
Date: Sun Jan 09 2000 - 17:51:39 EST


On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 08:44:09PM +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Frederick Barnes wrote:
> > I've been trying to install the bigphysarea stuff in
> > the 2.3.36 kernel. However, the memory management
> > has changed somewhat and memory_{start,end} no longer
> > exist. What's the new strategy for getting n contigous
> > pages at boot time (and a pointer to the start in the
> > kernels address space) ?

On my site you will find a version of bigphysarea which runs ok
on 2.3.34+ systems. It uses bootmem.
        http://www.polyware.nl/~middelink/En/hobbies.html

    Met vriendelijke groet,
        Pauline Middelink

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