Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Fri, 29 Dec 2006 02:30:37 +0900 | From | Paul Mundt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] introduce config option to disable DMA zone on i386 |
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On Thu, Dec 28, 2006 at 03:03:02PM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > The following patch adds a config option to get rid of the DMA zone on i386. > > Architectures with devices that have no addressing limitations (eg. PPC) > already work this way. > > This is useful for custom kernel builds where the developer is certain that > there are no address limitations. > Don't know if you're aware or not, but there's already a CONFIG_ZONE_DMA in -mm that accomplishes this, which goes a bit further in that it rips out all of the generic ZONE_DMA references. Quite a few architectures that have no interest in the zone are using this already. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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