Re: Proposal: Eliminate GFP_DMA

[Alan Cox]

On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 07:43, Rogier Wolff wrote:
> PCI devices on the restricted PCI bus (dev2) will have to pass a 
> memory allocation descriptor that describes just the memory on 
> that PCI bus,  the other one (dev1) can pass a descriptor that 
> prefers the non-shared memory, (leaving as much as possible for 
> the devices on the other bus (bus2)), but
> reverts to the memory that the other devices can handle as well. 

Which is actually what I said - you need to have the pci_alloc 
equivalents for generic devices and pass the device you wish to
do the allocation for. How that allocation occurs doesn't 
matter too much and can be arch specific