> > I'm having a problem on three computers, where the computer refuses to
> > play sound. I suspect that the sound driver allocates the DMA every time
> > the audio device is opened inseted of when the driver is loaded, this is
> > not acceptiable with the current state of Linuxes VM.
>
> Its configurable (dmabuf=1)
>
Still this isn't too good when you're using modularized sound drivers and
want to load them say... after a week of uptime ;)
... or you're developing driver which uses DMA and you hate rebooting
every time you make changes to it as the kernel won't give you DMA:ble memory
[... or use kmod for sound drivers]
I think we need some way to reserve DMA:ble memory in some early stage of
booting up the 'puter... or then the memory allocation crap should be
redone once again from scratch ;)
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