On Sun, 7 Oct 2001, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> You are right. Code that allocates more than page and expects it to be
> physicaly contignuous is broken by design. Even rewrite the driver or
> allocate memory on boot. It will be very hard to audit all drivers for it.
Better buy us all new hardware, then ;)
Some devices really do want physically contiguous buffers
for DMA...
Rik
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