Hi Everyone,

Thanks for your replies. I am going to stick with my start_kernel()
edit until this CMA engine comes along.

Regards,
Peter

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 10:16 AM, FUJITA Tomonori
<fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> wrote:
quoted text
> On Wed, 4 Aug 2010 16:07:52 +1000
> Peter Crosthwaite <peter.crosthwaite@petalogix.com> wrote:
>
>> I am currently developing Kernel code to allocate and reserve a large
>> (64MB) contiguous buffer for DMA.
>
> A buffer needs to be physically continuous (your hardware can't do
> scatter gather)? If so, as already pointed out, there is no pretty
> solution for it.
>
> There are some drivers that need to do such so the issue has been
> under discussion:
>
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-mm&m=128015343705933&w=2
>
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