*Wave*
The zr36120 is such a broken chip... It has one DMA pointer for
the entire field (really two pointers for one frame) it wants
to transfer. No scatter, no gather.
> This is the main point. There are so so few devices that actually _have_ to
> have lots of linear memory it is questionable that it is worth paying the
> price to allow modules to allocate that way
The problem i'm currently running against is the i have to use
kmalloc() with an 2^x order for the amount of pages to alloc.
Unfortuantly I have defined a framebuffer of a maximum size of
about 3.5MB. 896 pages -> thus kmalloc(...,1024) is needed; We
just threw away 128 pages or 512K :(
Met vriendelijke groet,
Pauline Middelink
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