Hello everyone, I'm working on a driver for older HDTV cards based on the TL880 chip. These cards typically have 16MB of their own memory, which is available to me over the PCI bus. Various functions of the card require me to manage this memory, allocating and freeing chunks of it as necessary. I can easily include my own allocation and management code, but I'm sure this is a problem that has been solved before. I've found two interesting sets of functions, the kmem_cache_* and mempool_* functions, but neither does quite what I'm looking for. So, in a sentence, my question is this: Does the kernel provide memory pool functions that would allow me to call the appropriate equivalent of kmalloc/kfree, using the card's memory as the pool instead of actually allocating physical or virtual memory?
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