On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 6:24 PM, FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 15:09:13 +0300 > Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> > As already pointed out, some embeded drivers need physcailly >> > contignous memory. Currenlty, they use hacky tricks (e.g. playing with >> > the boot memory allocators). There are several proposals for this like >> > adding a new kernel memory allocator (from samsung). >> > >> > It's ideal if the memory allocator can handle this, I think. >> >> Not only contiguous, but sometimes also coherent. > > Can you give the list of such drivers? omapfb and tidspbridge. Perhaps tidspbridge can be modified to flush the relevant memory, but for now it does. I'm not sure about omapfb, but it would be very likely that user-space would need to be modified if flushes suddenly become required. -- Felipe Contreras -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>