Re: Can I get 200M contiguous physical memory?

2005-03-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
Mario Holbe wrote: Jason Luo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Now, I am writing a driver, which need 200M contiguous physical memory? can do? how to do it? The ftape utils have a tool called swapout which tries to 'free' large chunks of memory which then can be allocated by the ftape module loaded

Re: Can I get 200M contiguous physical memory?

2005-03-11 Thread Bill Davidsen
Mario Holbe wrote: Jason Luo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, I am writing a driver, which need 200M contiguous physical memory? can do? how to do it? The ftape utils have a tool called swapout which tries to 'free' large chunks of memory which then can be allocated by the ftape module loaded

Re: Can I get 200M contiguous physical memory?

2005-03-10 Thread Robert Hancock
Chris Wedgwood wrote: it's driver in windows can do it. windows can get 200MB of memory on a running system relaibly? does it swap like mad when you do this? I'm guessing that driver isn't too likely to pass WHQL testing on Windows either, whatever it's doing.. -- Robert Hancock

Re: Can I get 200M contiguous physical memory?

2005-03-10 Thread linux-os
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Nate Edel wrote: From: "Arjan van de Ven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jason Luo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A data acquisition card. In DMA mode, the card need 200M contiguous memory for DMA. (or want to reserve memory at the boot commandline and then do really really evil hacks) Such

Re: Can I get 200M contiguous physical memory?

2005-03-10 Thread Nate Edel
From: "Arjan van de Ven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jason Luo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A data acquisition card. In DMA mode, the card need 200M contiguous memory for DMA. (or want to reserve memory at the boot commandline and then do really really evil hacks) Such as booting the machine with "mem=(real

Re: Can I get 200M contiguous physical memory?

2005-03-10 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 10:57 -0800, Nate Edel wrote: > From: "Arjan van de Ven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Jason Luo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> A data acquisition card. In DMA mode, the card need 200M contiguous > >> memory for DMA. > > > > (or want to reserve memory at the boot commandline and then

Re: Can I get 200M contiguous physical memory?

2005-03-10 Thread Mario Holbe
Jason Luo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now, I am writing a driver, which need 200M contiguous physical > memory? can do? how to do it? The ftape utils have a tool called swapout which tries to 'free' large chunks of memory which then can be allocated by the ftape module loaded subsequently. I

Re: Can I get 200M contiguous physical memory?

2005-03-10 Thread Chris Wedgwood
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 04:49:20PM +0800, Jason Luo wrote: > A data acquisition card. In DMA mode, the card need 200M contiguous > memory for DMA. ick? it can't do scatter-gather or anything sane? > it's driver in windows can do it. windows can get 200MB of memory on a running system relaibly?

Re: Can I get 200M contiguous physical memory?

2005-03-10 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 16:49 +0800, Jason Luo wrote: > thanks! > A data acquisition card. In DMA mode, the card need 200M contiguous > memory for DMA. > it's driver in windows can do it. so custom ask us to support it. > are there a way although it'is unpopular? not really unless your card can do

Re: Can I get 200M contiguous physical memory?

2005-03-10 Thread Jason Luo
thanks! A data acquisition card. In DMA mode, the card need 200M contiguous memory for DMA. it's driver in windows can do it. so custom ask us to support it. are there a way although it'is unpopular? On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 00:16:34 -0800, Chris Wedgwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 10,

Re: Can I get 200M contiguous physical memory?

2005-03-10 Thread Chris Wedgwood
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 04:10:18PM +0800, Jason Luo wrote: > Now, I am writing a driver, which need 200M contiguous physical > memory? can do? how to do it? Not easily no. Do you really need this? What kind of hardware is this? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Can I get 200M contiguous physical memory?

2005-03-10 Thread Jason Luo
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Can I get 200M contiguous physical memory?

2005-03-10 Thread Jason Luo
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Re: Can I get 200M contiguous physical memory?

2005-03-10 Thread Chris Wedgwood
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 04:10:18PM +0800, Jason Luo wrote: Now, I am writing a driver, which need 200M contiguous physical memory? can do? how to do it? Not easily no. Do you really need this? What kind of hardware is this? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: Can I get 200M contiguous physical memory?

2005-03-10 Thread Jason Luo
thanks! A data acquisition card. In DMA mode, the card need 200M contiguous memory for DMA. it's driver in windows can do it. so custom ask us to support it. are there a way although it'is unpopular? On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 00:16:34 -0800, Chris Wedgwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Mar 10, 2005

Re: Can I get 200M contiguous physical memory?

2005-03-10 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 16:49 +0800, Jason Luo wrote: thanks! A data acquisition card. In DMA mode, the card need 200M contiguous memory for DMA. it's driver in windows can do it. so custom ask us to support it. are there a way although it'is unpopular? not really unless your card can do

Re: Can I get 200M contiguous physical memory?

2005-03-10 Thread Chris Wedgwood
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 04:49:20PM +0800, Jason Luo wrote: A data acquisition card. In DMA mode, the card need 200M contiguous memory for DMA. ick? it can't do scatter-gather or anything sane? it's driver in windows can do it. windows can get 200MB of memory on a running system relaibly?

Re: Can I get 200M contiguous physical memory?

2005-03-10 Thread Mario Holbe
Jason Luo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, I am writing a driver, which need 200M contiguous physical memory? can do? how to do it? The ftape utils have a tool called swapout which tries to 'free' large chunks of memory which then can be allocated by the ftape module loaded subsequently. I don't

Re: Can I get 200M contiguous physical memory?

2005-03-10 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Thu, 2005-03-10 at 10:57 -0800, Nate Edel wrote: From: Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jason Luo [EMAIL PROTECTED] A data acquisition card. In DMA mode, the card need 200M contiguous memory for DMA. (or want to reserve memory at the boot commandline and then do really really

Re: Can I get 200M contiguous physical memory?

2005-03-10 Thread Nate Edel
From: Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jason Luo [EMAIL PROTECTED] A data acquisition card. In DMA mode, the card need 200M contiguous memory for DMA. (or want to reserve memory at the boot commandline and then do really really evil hacks) Such as booting the machine with mem=(real memory -

Re: Can I get 200M contiguous physical memory?

2005-03-10 Thread linux-os
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Nate Edel wrote: From: Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jason Luo [EMAIL PROTECTED] A data acquisition card. In DMA mode, the card need 200M contiguous memory for DMA. (or want to reserve memory at the boot commandline and then do really really evil hacks) Such as

Re: Can I get 200M contiguous physical memory?

2005-03-10 Thread Robert Hancock
Chris Wedgwood wrote: it's driver in windows can do it. windows can get 200MB of memory on a running system relaibly? does it swap like mad when you do this? I'm guessing that driver isn't too likely to pass WHQL testing on Windows either, whatever it's doing.. -- Robert Hancock