tree 05dbd9781e7554c2ee320290948b22cd13d238bc
parent e2a8f7a129aff5173c238c8896f004e07a2a3abe
author Abhay Salunke <Abhay_Salunke@dell.com> 1131353966 -0800
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> 1131378816 -0800

[PATCH] dell_rbu: Adding BIOS memory floor support

This patch has the changes to support the memory floor fix done in Dell
BIOS.  The BIOS incase of packet update mechanism would not accept packet
placed in memory below a cretain address.  This address is by default 128K
but can change.  The driver now can accept the memory floor if the user
chooses to make it will try to allocate contiguous physical memory above
the memory floor by allocating a set of packets till a valid memory
allocation is made.  All the allocates then are freed.  This repeats for
everty packet.

This patch was created by Michael E Brown and has been tested on 2.6.14-rc5

Signed-of-by: Michael E Brown <Michael_E_Brown@Dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Abhay Salunke <abhay_salunke@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>