linux-kernel - Re: Can Linux live without DMA zone?

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Date:	Thu, 2 Nov 2006 19:32:00 +0900
From:	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>
To:	Jun Sun <jsun@...sun.net>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Can Linux live without DMA zone?

On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 06:15:47PM -0800, Jun Sun wrote:
> The fundamental question is: Has anybody tried to run Linux without 0 sized
> DMA zone before?  Am I doing something that nobody has done before (which is
> something really hard to believe these days with Linux :P)?
> 
There's patches that rip out ZONE_DMA for platforms that don't have a DMA
limitation (and were pretty much putting all of ZONE_NORMAL in ZONE_DMA),
all of these are already in -mm.
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