Re: bigphysarea needed in 2.3.x?

Pauline Middelink (middelink@polyware.nl)
Wed, 26 Apr 2000 10:06:26 +0200

On Tue, 25 Apr 2000 around 12:59:17 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> The bigphysarea patch for 2.2.x reserves a large region of contiguous
> physical memory (such as 4MB or more) for use by drivers like
> framegrabbers, which need a lot of physical memory.

I have a patch for 2.3.xx too, which is fairly non-intrusive due to
the /proc and alloc-bootmem changes... All i need to change is some
makefile and Configure.in to get it compiling...

Met vriendelijke groet,
Pauline Middelink

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