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Date:      Sun, 20 Sep 1998 16:03:22 -0600 (MDT)
From:      "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com>
To:        Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: malloc()ing 64K physically contiguous buffer in kernel
Message-ID:  <199809202203.QAA03178@narnia.plutotech.com>
In-Reply-To: <199809201745.NAA21711@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> <19980920212910.21253@follo.net>

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In article <19980920212910.21253@follo.net> you wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 20, 1998 at 01:45:24PM -0400, Bill Paul wrote:
>> So: is there some way to allocate 64K of contiguous memory? Or even
>> 8/16/32K? As long as I can hit one of the allowed buffer sizes I'll
>> be happy, although I wanted 64K in order to reduce the likelyhood of
>> receiver overruns.
> 
> contigmalloc().

You should use bus_dma instead of contigmalloc, but I won't think
badly of you until I've gotten off my duff and written the man
pages for it. (bus_dma eventually uses contigmalloc to satisfy the
request, but this may change (very likely on other platforms)).

--
Justin

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