Re: Debian Kernel 2.6 bigphysarea

2004-05-07 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
Nachum Kanovsky wrote: Can anyone tell me how to go about allocating large physical memory for use by dma and usermode programs. I used to use bigphysarea_alloc, mem_map_reserve - and then for mapping I would set the vma to VM_LOCKED and I would call remap_page_range. What do I do

RE: Debian Kernel 2.6 bigphysarea

2004-05-07 Thread Nachum Kanovsky
I am running debian unstable on an i386 based system. I have decided to try and do this with the mem= bootparam. I keep getting a kernel crash after testing the memory with kernel 2.4.26, as if I am overwriting memory that is being used by the system. What I am doing is mapping the physical

OT: Sun equipment in Israel?

2004-05-07 Thread Ben Hornedo
Hello All: I was wondering if anyone knows where I may be able to find a keyboard/mouse and maybe a SCSI CD-ROM for a Sun UltraSPARC? Also, has anyone installed Linux on SUN equipment before? Thanks for any help, Ben = To