Re: kexec reboot code buffer

From: William Lee Irwin III (wli@holomorphy.com)
Date: Mon Jan 27 2003 - 19:10:24 EST


On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 02:03:24PM -0800, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> We talked about creating a new zone specifically for DMA32 (ie <4Gb)
> for other reasons, but it's not there as yet. As Dave mentioned,
> ZONE_NORMAL should be sufficient, though if you need it physically
> contiguous, that might be a problem.

Slapping down the new zone type is trivial and has no obvious negative
consequences. There's no clear reason why it's not already been done.

-- wli
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