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hi. i desperately hope this is not too stupid. i'm trying to write a driver which depends on giving pci devices access to somewhat larger amounts of pysical memory. let's say, a megabyte of contiguous ram. is it possible to resize such an area later on? i mean: is there some mechanism availabl

[OOPS]

hi all. apart from an immediate reboot and having lost a few blocks on sda7, that's pretty much all i can say about it: -- ksymoops 2.3.4 on i586 2.4.0. Options used -V (default) -k /var/log/ksymoops/20010123074515.ksyms (specified) -l /var/log/ksym

Re: FS callback routines

"Sean R. Bright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok, before I begin, don't shoot me down, but I had an idea for a kernel > modification and was wondering how feasible the group thought it was. > > I was writing a user space application to monitor a folder's contents. The > folder itse

Re: [PATCH] hisax/sportster dependency error

hi. Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > according to sportster.c:get_io_range, this appears to be perfectly > > > intentional, request_regioning 64x8 byte from 0x268 in 1024byte-steps. > > > > AFAIK, this is because the hardware is stupid and does decode the higher > > address lines. Th

[PATCH] hisax/sportster dependency error

hi. a patch and a question: patch: just a few missing symbols in 2.4.0-final: --- linux-2.4/drivers/isdn/hisax/Makefile.orig Sat Jan 6 02:47:31 2001 +++ linux-2.4/drivers/isdn/hisax/Makefile Sat Jan 6 02:21:22 2001 @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ hisax-objs-$(CONFIG_HISAX_ASUSCOM) += asuscom.o isa