7 Jun
2011
7 Jun
'11
7:12 p.m.
On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 12:17:01PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
Currently I don't use any sophisticated memory allocater like GEM or similar. I helped myself with simple dma_alloc where needed. At
GEM is actually pretty sane when you get your head around it a spot. The main thing it took me a bit of time to get my head around is that it allocates backing memory and handles but it doesn't allocate address space on the card side.
I'm not sure I understand you correctly. I have no address space on the card side since my 'card' just uses main memory. The memory I need must be a physically contiguous portion of sdram. I'm afraid shmem backing memory is not of much use for me.
Correct me if I mix things up...
Sascha
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