Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Wed, 13 Sep 2006, Jes Sorensen wrote: > >>>>>>> "Christoph" == Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx> writes: >> Christoph> It is true for a large range of hardware. My x86 x64 >> Christoph> systems do not need the DMA zone and I have been running >> Christoph> them for awhile in this mode. Some drivers are not >> Christoph> available as a result of not having ZONE_DMA. >> >> Any idea which ones? > > There was the floppy driver and one type of USB stick that I noticed > during the work on the project. But other drivers may depend also depend > indirectly on DMA functionality and may also be disabled. Ok, USB should ring alarm bells, floppy I think is less relevant these days :) Cheers, Jes - 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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