On Mon, 2006-09-11 at 15:27 -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > Optional ZONE_DMA > > This patch follows up on the earlier work in Andrew's tree to reduce > the number of zones. The patches allow to go to a minimum of 2 zones. > This one allows also to make ZONE_DMA optional and therefore the > number of zones can be reduced to one. > > ZONE_DMA is usually used for ISA DMA devices. Typically modern hardware > does not have any of these anymore. in the x86 / x86-64 world that statement is not correct ;( while there is no physical bus there is still too much "be exactly as if" stuff around. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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