8MB physical memory allocation

From: Alessio Sangalli
Date: Thu Sep 11 2008 - 00:29:56 EST


Hi, I'm writing a driver for a video adapter that needs to allocate 8MB
(maximum resolution) in physical, contiguos memory. I am working on a
ARM9 platform.

I guess the only way to go is alloc_bootmem(). Any other solution that
may be recently introduced?

bye
as

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