Re: GFP_DMA32 and PAE x86 machines

[Dave Airlie]

Depending on split all lowmem is below 1GB which isn't exactly
optimal, I'd llike all 4GB for DMA.

Dave.

On 5/31/07, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dave Airlie wrote:
> > Just a question,
> >
> > So we have GFP_DMA32 on x86-64 to gives us memory below 4G? so we not
> > have the same on PAE based x86 machines so I can use a consistent API
> > from the drm?
> >
> > Otherwise it'll be stick some ifdefs in the drm to deal with it..
> >
>
> Well, all lowmem is below 4 GB on i386...
>
> 	-hpa
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