Frederick Barnes wrote:
> Secondly, the bigphysarea thing which has been drifting around.
> This is good for a number of things (frame-grabbers, such stuff),
> and needed to get predictable cache behaviour from user-space.
2.5 may well introduce support for dynamic allocation of large
contiguous regions, by page copying. Don't hold breath though :-)
-- Jamie
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