From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Conke Hu <conke.hu@amd.com>
Cc: Jun Sun <jsun@junsun.net>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: Can Linux live without DMA zone?
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 11:51:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1162464682.14530.21.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FFECF24D2A7F6D418B9511AF6F358602F2D5DF@shacnexch2.atitech.com>
On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 18:33 +0800, Conke Hu wrote:
> Most PCs do not have ISA or floppy, so maybe we could add an option to enable DMA zone or not.
>
please don't top-post.
also floppy is still there a lot unfortunately ... as are some of the
more crappy soundcards. ZONE_DMA is a 32 bit linux thing; most modern
systems are 64 bit capable now....
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-02 10:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-02 10:33 Conke Hu
2006-11-02 10:51 ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2006-11-02 13:09 ` Alan Cox
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2006-11-02 3:43 Conke Hu
2006-11-02 7:13 ` Peter Zijlstra
2006-11-02 16:13 ` Christoph Lameter
2006-11-02 2:15 Jun Sun
2006-11-02 9:16 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-02 10:32 ` Paul Mundt
2006-11-02 16:32 ` Phillip Susi
2006-11-02 16:57 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-02 19:08 ` Phillip Susi
2006-11-02 20:10 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-02 21:26 ` Phillip Susi
2006-11-02 22:19 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-11-02 23:17 ` Jun Sun
2006-11-02 23:24 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-11-06 2:19 ` Phillip Susi
2006-11-03 17:54 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2006-11-02 18:02 ` Alan Cox
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