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From: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
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Subject: Re: Reserving large amounts of RAM for busmastering PCI card.
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> > >  Since the 2.4 kernels introduce the e820map structure, I'd like to
> > >  plug into that infrastructure, and create a new type memory segment
> > >  for this storage (I envisage having more than one segment), but in the
> > >  2.4.4 kernel (which I am forced to remain with for quite a while) it
> > >  seems not to be used apart from set up at boot time.
> > 
> > Stop reinventing the wheel and take Matt & Pauline's bigphisarea.
> >  http://www.polyware.nl/~middelink/patch/bigphysarea-2.4.4.tar.gz
> 
> Is bigphysarea needed in 2.4?   You have alloc_bootmem...

I thought bigphisarea allowed to unload and reload modules,
at least I used it that way with C-cube MPEG board. Makes
for faster tests.

-- Pete
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