Re: Debian Kernel 2.6 & bigphysarea

2004-05-09 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
On Sunday 09 May 2004 11:42, Nachum Kanovsky wrote: > Success! This has been painful, and I appreciate the help from the list. I > just have one more question. > > I am not using 2.6 anymore, I had to switch to 2.4 b/c of glibc issues. > > In kernel 2.4.26 I do not need to perform ioremap on memory

RE: Debian Kernel 2.6 & bigphysarea

2004-05-09 Thread Nachum Kanovsky
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Muli Ben-Yehuda Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 1:55 PM To: Gilad Ben-Yossef Cc: Nachum Kanovsky; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Debian Kernel 2.6 & bigphysarea Nachum Kanovsky wrote: > > Can anyone tell me how to go about a

RE: Debian Kernel 2.6 & bigphysarea

2004-05-07 Thread Nachum Kanovsky
May 07, 2004 1:55 PM To: Gilad Ben-Yossef Cc: Nachum Kanovsky; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Debian Kernel 2.6 & bigphysarea Nachum Kanovsky wrote: > > Can anyone tell me how to go about allocating large physical memory > > for use by dma and usermode programs. I used to use >

Re: Debian Kernel 2.6 & bigphysarea

2004-05-07 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
Nachum Kanovsky wrote: > > Can anyone tell me how to go about allocating large physical memory for use > > by dma and usermode programs. I used to use bigphysarea_alloc, > > mem_map_reserve - and then for mapping I would set the vma to VM_LOCKED and > > I would call remap_page_range. > > > > What

Re: Debian Kernel 2.6 & bigphysarea

2004-05-06 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
On Thursday 06 May 2004 16:06, Nachum Kanovsky wrote: > I have been searching around for a while on the internet, and I haven't > found any good explanation on where bigphysarea went in debian's 2.6 > kernels, and what I can use as an alternative. > > Can anyone tell me how to go about allocating l

Debian Kernel 2.6 & bigphysarea

2004-05-06 Thread Nachum Kanovsky
I have been searching around for a while on the internet, and I haven't found any good explanation on where bigphysarea went in debian's 2.6 kernels, and what I can use as an alternative. Can anyone tell me how to go about allocating large physical memory for use by dma and usermode programs. I us