On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > 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 ;( It is true for a large range of hardware. My x86 x64 systems do not need the DMA zone and I have been running them for awhile in this mode. Some drivers are not available as a result of not having ZONE_DMA. - 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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