On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 08:59:28PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > I'm not sure I understand you correctly. I have no address space on the
> > card side since my 'card' just uses main memory. The memory I need must
> > be a physically contiguous portion of sdram. I'm afraid shmem backing
> > memory is n
> I'm not sure I understand you correctly. I have no address space on the
> card side since my 'card' just uses main memory. The memory I need must
> be a physically contiguous portion of sdram. I'm afraid shmem backing
> memory is not of much use for me.
I hadn't realised you had that underlying
On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 12:17:01PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Currently I don't use any sophisticated memory allocater like GEM
> > or similar. I helped myself with simple dma_alloc where needed. At
>
> GEM is actually pretty sane when you get your head around it a spot. The
> main thing it took m
> Currently I don't use any sophisticated memory allocater like GEM
> or similar. I helped myself with simple dma_alloc where needed. At
GEM is actually pretty sane when you get your head around it a spot. The
main thing it took me a bit of time to get my head around is that it
allocates backing m