Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 03:28:25PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > 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. > > vmalloc is not physically continguos, He could use bootmem > unless he wants his driver to work modular. Search for the bigphysarea kernel patch. It will do what you want. Mark -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
