Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266640AbUFXRWW (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jun 2004 13:22:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266657AbUFXRWW (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jun 2004 13:22:22 -0400 Received: from ppp-217-133-42-200.cust-adsl.tiscali.it ([217.133.42.200]:48608 "EHLO dualathlon.random") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266640AbUFXRWU (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Jun 2004 13:22:20 -0400 Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 19:22:25 +0200 From: Andrea Arcangeli To: Andi Kleen Cc: Terence Ripperda , Andi Kleen , discuss@x86-64.org, tiwai@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [discuss] Re: 32-bit dma allocations on 64-bit platforms Message-ID: <20040624172225.GO30687@dualathlon.random> References: <20040623234644.GC38425@colin2.muc.de> <20040624154429.GC8014@hygelac> <20040624161539.GC8085@wotan.suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040624161539.GC8085@wotan.suse.de> X-GPG-Key: 1024D/68B9CB43 13D9 8355 295F 4823 7C49 C012 DFA1 686E 68B9 CB43 X-PGP-Key: 1024R/CB4660B9 CC A0 71 81 F4 A0 63 AC C0 4B 81 1D 8C 15 C8 E5 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 725 Lines: 14 On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 06:15:40PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > reasonable to require the user to pass special boot options and > tie up much memory. the boot parameter will always work and it avoids a new zone. btw, if we would link the driver into the kernel no boot parameter would be necessary, if the hardware would be discovered it could allocated its tons of memory with bootmem. But it sounds like there are too many drivers in troubles so I believe we can't link them all. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/