Re: GFP_DMA32 and PAE x86 machines

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Depending on split all lowmem is below 1GB which isn't exactly
optimal, I'd llike all 4GB for DMA.

Dave.

On 5/31/07, H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]> wrote:
Dave Airlie wrote:
> Just a question,
>
> So we have GFP_DMA32 on x86-64 to gives us memory below 4G? so we not
> have the same on PAE based x86 machines so I can use a consistent API
> from the drm?
>
> Otherwise it'll be stick some ifdefs in the drm to deal with it..
>

Well, all lowmem is below 4 GB on i386...

	-hpa

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