On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Steve Johnson wrote:
> You can't call kmalloc that early in the startup process. Look at main.c,
> and init_IRQ comes before any of the memory initialization.
>
> Steve
>
> Liam Davies wrote:
>
> > I am currently at the stage of calling request_region in my irq_setup
> > function.
> > The call to request_region does a kmalloc which oops. The box has 256Mb Ram.
> >
> > Is this the right stage to be doing this call? Is there something that I
> > have missed
> > in setting up the memory regions or paging?
Hence use request_resource() while passing a statically allocated and
initialized struct resource instead.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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