On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 10:14:00AM -0700, Tom Rini wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 07:11:00PM -0800, David C. Chiu wrote: > > > Thanks for the response. Would you be so kind to be more specific? I did > > a coarse search of the kernel documentation subdirectory contents, but > > fail to find what you are referring to (although I have been referred to > > as the seeing blind in the past.) > > Sorry, I don't recall exactly where/what it is. I do remember there > being a few projects which required a large chunk of contigious memory, > and having to do mem=XXm in 2.0 (2.2?) but in 2.2 (2.4?) there's kernel > calls you can make to get a large contig section of memory, if it > exists.
... and it might even be the 'alloc_bootmem' call Jim Lewis mentioned, now that I think about it.. -- Tom Rini (TR1265) http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/ ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
