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Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 22:38:06 -0700
From: "Martin J. Bligh" <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>
Reply-To: "Martin J. Bligh" <Martin.Bligh@us.ibm.com>
To: Kevin Hilman <kevin@hilman.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ioremap() >= 128Mb (was: Memory problem with bttv driver)
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> The basic problem is that I have a machine with 1G physical memory and
> a device with an 128Mb of on-board memory that I would like to
> ioremap().  Of course, since VMALLOC_RESERVE is 128Mb this will always
> fail if there have been any previous calls to vmalloc() or ioremap()

Or even if there have been no previous calls, since other things
(fixmap, kmap, etc) come out of that space too. 

M.

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