Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752845AbWKBNTF (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Nov 2006 08:19:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752847AbWKBNTE (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Nov 2006 08:19:04 -0500 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:48830 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752845AbWKBNTC (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Nov 2006 08:19:02 -0500 Subject: RE: Can Linux live without DMA zone? From: Alan Cox To: Conke Hu Cc: Arjan van de Ven , Jun Sun , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 13:09:26 +0000 Message-Id: <1162472966.11965.180.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 (2.6.2-1.fc5.5) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 596 Lines: 12 Ar Iau, 2006-11-02 am 18:33 +0800, ysgrifennodd Conke Hu: > Most PCs do not have ISA or floppy, so maybe we could add an option to enable DMA zone or not. Lots of hardware still needs memory below the 2GB boundary, or for floppy etc (which is common) in the low 16MB. People are still shipping wireless hardware with these kind of limits even today. - 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/