Em Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 04:01:08PM -0500, Richard B. Johnson escreveu:
> If all you need is a kernel buffer to store the stuff that will be
> written to NVRAM, then just use kmalloc(). It is virtual and will
s/kmalloc/vmalloc/
> seem contiguous to your driver.
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On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Paul Powell wrote:
> Our driver is trying to allocate a DMA buffer to flash
> an adapter's firmware. This can require as much as
> 512K ( of contiguous DMA memory ). We are using the
> function __get_free_pages( GFP_KERNEL | GFP_DMA, order
> ) . The call is failing if 'orde
Em Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 12:39:33PM -0800, Paul Powell escreveu:
> Our driver is trying to allocate a DMA buffer to flash an adapter's
> firmware. This can require as much as 512K ( of contiguous DMA memory ).
> We are using the function __get_free_pages( GFP_KERNEL | GFP_DMA, order)
> . The cal
Our driver is trying to allocate a DMA buffer to flash
an adapter's firmware. This can require as much as
512K ( of contiguous DMA memory ). We are using the
function __get_free_pages( GFP_KERNEL | GFP_DMA, order
) . The call is failing if 'order' is greater than 6.
The problem is seen on system
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