We need a memory manager for the VRAM on video cards. The most common video cards have been 2MB and 512MB memory. Is it possible to reuse the kernel slab allocator for managing this memory?
There are a couple of other odd constraints. 1) Some objects need to be allocated on boundaries, like 64B or even 1KB divisible addresses. 2) It would be best if the allocation bookkeeping data structures were kept in system RAM. It may not be simple to access VRAM for read/write of bookkeeping info. VRAM can require slow PCI cycles or need high mem mappings to access. If possible I'd rather reuse an existing manager than write a new one. -- Jon Smirl [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/