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Question: DMA buffer sizes

Forum: The Linux Kernel Hackers' Guide
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 1997 15:19:29 GMT
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I want to allocate a DMA buffer larger than 128*1024. Is it possible to configure the kernel to allow bigger DMA buffer sizes? I've attempted to increase the PAGE_SIZE to 8192 but that crashes the system.