Re: kmalloc
Geert Uytterhoeven (Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Fri, 29 Jan 1999 17:06:41 +0100 (CET)
On Fri, 29 Jan 1999, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> Martin Mares (mj@ucw.cz)
> > Sure. I was talking about this as a right solution for 2.2.
> > In 2.3, we finally need to make kernel understand there can
> > be multiple buses, each of them using either a different
> > phys<->bus mapping or an IOMMU. I started working on a new set
> > of I/O functions, but for now I have to do some exams first.
>
> NetBSD has bus_space() and bus_dma() man pages and a white paper.
> They claim to share drivers accross multiple busses with ease.
> Maybe this is something we ought to clone.
>
> BTW, do we really have a dozen Lance Ethernet card drivers?
I don't remember the exact number, but a few months ago I counted them and a
dozen is a reasonable estimate.
Greetings,
Geert (happy there's only one ATI Mach64 driver left :-)
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Geert Uytterhoeven Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
Wavelets, Linux/{m68k~Amiga,PPC~CHRP} http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~geert/
Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium
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