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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/7] ps3: Preallocate bootmem memory for the PS3 FLASH ROM storage driver
Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 20:24:57 +0200
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On Sunday 27 May 2007, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-05-26 at 10:51 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > Do you know another way to allocate an aligned chunk of 256 KiB of
> > physically
> > contiguous memory, possibly a long time after boot up?
> 
> kmalloc & a good prayer ? :-0

s/kmalloc/get_free_pages/

kmalloc is limited to 128kb.

	Arnd <><
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