Re: Memory problem with bttv driver

[Alan Cox]

> > The bt848 drivers are working beautifully
> > for me in 2.4.18pre
> 
> Well, I had a quick look at the code, and it seems that vmalloc is just
> failing, the source line is obvious./proc/meminfo before modprobe and xawtv:
> 
>         total:    used:    free:  shared: buffers:  cached:
> Mem:  1054728192 120070144 934658048        0 10420224 65257472
> Swap: 1085652992        0 1085652992
> 
> Can this be highmem-related?

That would make complete sense if so. The bttv uses vmalloc_32(), as the
card has 32bit limits, and I am not running bttv (nor I suspect are most
people) with highmem enabled