On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Gerd Knorr wrote:
> David Geldreich <David.Geldreich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > This driver uses highmemory to store a ring buffer when
> > streaming video. On a 512Mb machine, I limit the memory to 500Meg
> > (with mem=500M) and so the driver got 12Mb to use. This works fine
> > with a non-SMP kernel (2.4.17) but with an SMP kernel it seems that
> > after ioremapping the physical high memory to virtual adress space
> > the kernel freeze.
>
> What is the point of doing that in the first place? Do you really
> need physically continous memory?
Yes, the hardware can't handle scatter-gather :-(
Cord
