look at alloc_bootmem and family of function to allocate memory at boot time, description for same is available in chapter 8 Linux device drivers. Rajat On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Asha R <rd.asha22@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > I want to reserve one range of physical memory say from 0x10000000 of 256MB > in Linux. This region is required for DMA functions alone. > Please help me understand how we can reserve this in Linux. Can this be > done using boot options or any other? > > Regards, > Asha > _______________________________________________ > Kernelnewbies mailing list > Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies > > _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies