application needs fast access to physical memory

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Fri Nov 19 07:48:41 EST 2010


On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 14:46:16 -0600
<steven.lin at teradyne.com> wrote:

> Hello Scott,
> 
> Do you know whether this patch is necessary if I were to use alloc_bootmem
> () (to set aside a region of contiguous physical memory) instead of the
> kernel parameter "mem=256"?

It should not be needed in that case.

-Scott



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