Subject: Re: es1371.o sound module on a IBM 405 walnut platform

From: Ralph Blach <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 20:10:33 -0500

Dan Malek wrote:

> Ralph Blach wrote:
>
> > Well it does.  And I recomend a new kernel interface, and Dan, I KNOW
> > YOU WILL not like THE VERY IDEA,
> > by here it is.
>
>
>
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> > By the same token, an interface to allocate noncached memory would be
> > spiffy.
>
> That's already been done for the 8xx and 4xx ports in the kernel
> trees.
>
>         -- Dan

Yes it has, only for non cached pages.  But what propose is a new
interface like kmalloc_noncache, and kfree_noncache.

This would allow one to allocate noncached buffers for usb and SCSI work.

--
Ralph "Chip" Blach
KF4WBK
Chapel Hill, North Carolina

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