Steve:
>It is not too bad a solution after all, as the bigphysarea patch takes
>a lilo parameter as well, and so requires user interaction. I think this
>is not unreasonable as such devices need not be considered mainstream.
Yup.
>The ideal solution might be to use the mem parameter to shave off some
>excess memory, then make a bigphysarea allocator into a module. Perhaps
>Alessandro's code would do the job?
Yes, that's it.
>[...] it might be possible to use the mem= parameter and let
>the bigphysarea module autodetect the top.
It's easy to detect where RAM ends, just write and check back :)
I know of one person using several frame grabbers doing contiguous DMA
by means of my allocator module.
Unofrtunately, It's not updated to 2.[12], the current version is 2.0 only.
Best
/alessandro
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