Bug#356458: linux-2.6: please include bigphysarea patch

2008-12-18 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 11:02:18PM -0600, Ryan Underwood wrote: > Package: linux-2.6 > Severity: wishlist > > > Hi, > Debian used to include bigphysarea patch in 2.4 kernels. It is needed > to support hardware with no scatter-gather DMA. > http://pv105234.reshsg.uci.edu/~jfeise/Downloads/zr36120

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2006-04-25 Thread Andrew Morton
Ryan Underwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 12:38:11AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > We already have infrastructure for managing and allocating large > > physically-contiguous hunks of memory: arch/*/mm/hugetlb.c. On x86 that > > operates in 2MB hunks (non-PAE)

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2006-04-25 Thread Ryan Underwood
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 12:38:11AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > We already have infrastructure for managing and allocating large > physically-contiguous hunks of memory: arch/*/mm/hugetlb.c. On x86 that > operates in 2MB hunks (non-PAE) and 4MB hunks (PAE). > > Perhaps we could hook into the

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2006-04-25 Thread Andrew Morton
Ryan Underwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 09:09:39PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > I don't know what to suggest, really. I don't think that adding complexity > > to MM to support rare and broken hardware is likely to be welcome. > > Like I said, it's hardly r

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2006-04-25 Thread Ryan Underwood
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 09:09:39PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > I don't know what to suggest, really. I don't think that adding complexity > to MM to support rare and broken hardware is likely to be welcome. Like I said, it's hardly rare hardware. DC10plus is a very popular capture card, an

Bug#356458: linux-2.6: please include bigphysarea patch

2006-03-11 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Ryan Underwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-03-11 23:02]: > Debian used to include bigphysarea patch in 2.4 kernels. It is needed > to support hardware with no scatter-gather DMA. > http://pv105234.reshsg.uci.edu/~jfeise/Downloads/zr36120/ > I have tested the latest version and it works fine. linu

Bug#356458: linux-2.6: please include bigphysarea patch

2006-03-11 Thread Ryan Underwood
Package: linux-2.6 Severity: wishlist Hi, Debian used to include bigphysarea patch in 2.4 kernels. It is needed to support hardware with no scatter-gather DMA. http://pv105234.reshsg.uci.edu/~jfeise/Downloads/zr36120/ I have tested the latest version and it works fine. linux-kernel doesn't even