Re: Patch to reorder functions in the vmlinux to a defined order

[Rene Herman]

Alan Cox wrote:

> On Iau, 2006-02-23 at 20:23 +0100, Rene Herman wrote:

> > Does 16MB still work? Gets the kernel out of the old ZONE_DMA. I suppose 
> > not many people are really using that anyway anymore these days, but if 
> > no downsides maybe?
>
> Certainly the PAE kernel might as well do that and the AMD64 if it
> doesn't already. There are complications however getting above 16MB
> because 16bit protected mode (and maybe the BIOS helpers - I need to
> check that) can't hit it.

INT 15/AH=0x87 (move from low to high) on a 386+ should work, according 
to the documentation I have... Is PM16 used anywhere?

> We also used to have people DMAing into static kernel buffers in older
> days but hopefully that habit is now dead and gone because modules
> sorted most of it out.

Good method to flush out any possible remaining users :-)

Rene.

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