Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752451AbWKBKv1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Nov 2006 05:51:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752822AbWKBKv1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Nov 2006 05:51:27 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:61341 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752451AbWKBKv0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Nov 2006 05:51:26 -0500 Subject: RE: Can Linux live without DMA zone? From: Arjan van de Ven To: Conke Hu Cc: Jun Sun , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Intel International BV Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 11:51:22 +0100 Message-Id: <1162464682.14530.21.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.0 (2.8.0-7.fc6) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 763 Lines: 20 On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 18:33 +0800, Conke Hu wrote: > Most PCs do not have ISA or floppy, so maybe we could add an option to enable DMA zone or not. > please don't top-post. also floppy is still there a lot unfortunately ... as are some of the more crappy soundcards. ZONE_DMA is a 32 bit linux thing; most modern systems are 64 bit capable now.... -- if you want to mail me at work (you don't), use arjan (at) linux.intel.com Test the interaction between Linux and your BIOS via http://www.linuxfirmwarekit.org - 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/