On Mon, 2011-02-28 at 09:50 +0100, Marek Szyprowski wrote: > Hello, [...] > > I'm not sure that highmem is the right solution. First, this will force > systems with rather small amount of memory (like 256M) to use highmem just > to support DMA allocable memory. It also doesn't solve the issue with > specific memory requirement for our DMA hardware (multimedia codec needs > video memory buffers from 2 physical banks).
Could you explain why a codec would require memory buffers from 2 physical banks ? Thanks, Edward > > The relocation issue has been already addressed in the last CMA patch series. > Michal managed to create a framework that allowed to relocate on demand any > pages from the CMA area. > > Best regards > -- > Marek Szyprowski > Samsung Poland R&D Center > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
