** Reply to message from Brian Pomerantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 17
Jan 2001 12:17:19 -0800
> The most you can kmalloc() is 128KB unless this has changed in the 2.4
> kernel which I doubt. If you want a region of memory that large, use
> vmalloc(). Of course, this doesn't guarantee a contiguous region.
Couldn't you also use get_free_pages (commonly abbreviated as "gfp")? You can
alloc up to 2MB chunks on an x86 I think.
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