Re: PATCH: support for firmwares sizes up to 128000 bytes

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 23 Dec 1998 00:27:28 +0000 (GMT)

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> On Tue, Dec 22, 1998 at 05:23:10PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > I guessed you may be, thats why I pointed you at vmalloc. vmalloc
> > memory isnt physically linear but is logically linear (that is DMA
> > can see the different but the kernel cant).
>
> This reminds me; how would one build a list (for SG purposes) of
> pages in a vmalloc'd section then?

Using Stephen Tweedies raw I/O DMA patches.

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