Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > On Sun, 2003-05-04 at 21:40, anand kumar wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Thanks for immediate response. I used 2.4.20 kernel patched with > > bigphys > > area and got it working. I know that this patch is part of Suse > > distribution. Is there any plans to incorporate this patch in > > Red Hat? > > Is Red Hat 9 kernel equipped with this patch? > > no it's not, nor are there plans to add it. BigPhysArea is a hack, not a > solution. The solution is to use the scatter-gather engine on the pci > card instead of needing to chainsaw physical ram always... > And what about those cards that have no scatter-gather support in the hardware? Mark -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
