On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 10:14:38PM -0000, anand kumar wrote: > > Is there any other mechanism to allocate large amount of > physically contiguous memory blocks during normal run time of the > driver? Is this being addressed in later kernels. Look at vmalloc(). It should do what you are looking for. greg k-h -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/