Thread (7 messages) 7 messages, 2 authors, 2011-03-30

Re: [PATCH] unicore32 framebuffer driver fix: make videomemory kmalloc-ed and floatable

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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Date: 2011-03-29 14:43:04
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On Tuesday 29 March 2011, Guan Xuetao wrote:
1. make videomemory kmalloc-ed in fb-puv3.c
2. remove resource reservation for old fixed UNIGFX_MMAP & UVC_MMAP space
3. remove unused PKUNTIY_UNIGFX_MMAP_BASE, PKUNITY_UNIGFX_MMAP_SIZE,
        PKUNITY_UVC_MMAP_BASE, PKUNITY_UVC_MMAP_SIZE and KUSER_UNIGFX_BASE
4. remove unused header linux/vmalloc.h in fb-puv3.c

Signed-off-by: Guan Xuetao <redacted>
How does this work? UNIFB_MEMSIZE seems to be 4 MB, much more than the
maximum of 128 KB that kmalloc can allocate.

Shouldn't this use get_free_pages() instead of kmalloc?

	Arnd
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