Hi Richard and Chris,

On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> > Why didnt I think of that :)) hehehe.... yeah that would be a good place
> > to do it in too yes... VIDC DMA stuff however doesn't use those calls
> > though (AFAIK) and might need to be patched using the MD hook.
>
> I hadn't been intending to add VIDC DMA to the bus_dma module, though it
> shouldn't be too much extra work.

Hmm... dunno if that is nessisary at first but well we can see :)

> On a shark we de-prioritize allocating low memory (less than 16Mb phys
> address I think) for non-dma purposes.  On Kinetic machines we would want
> to do similar;  a positive side effect of this would be that we don't use
> motherboard ram unless we want it for a DMA buffer or we have already used
> up Kinetic ram.

Wow... so there is allready a kind of support for that build in ... hmm...
have to look into that! That would save lots of work!

Thanks a lot!,
Reinoud