Re: 8MB physical memory allocation

[Robin Holt]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 09:30:05PM -0700, Alessio Sangalli wrote:
> 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.

Not sure about arm9, but on ia64, alloc_pages does the trick.

	alloc_pages(GFP_KERNEL, 33-PAGE_SHIFT);

Might be slightly large of an allocation for any time other than boot,
but that is the call.

Thanks,
Robin
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/