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Am Sonntag, 13. Juni 2004 22:20 schrieb Margit Schubert-While:
> At 14:43 13.06.2004 +0100, Alan scribeth:
> >vmalloc is scatter gather virtual addressed data. It isnt DMAable.
> >kmalloc space is linear and DMAable generally as (on some platforms
> >only) is the stack.
>
> OK. That makes sense. I suppose the follow-up question is
> why is the firmware loader using vmalloc ?
> I would have thought that most, if not all, devices have this
> requirement.
Firmwares can be quite large. Memory allocation with kmalloc()
is not reliable at these sizes.
Regards
Oliver
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