Re: Newbie: allocating aligned physically-contiguous memory?

I guess you should have a look at the __get_free_pages() function,
it returns (if available) a number of physically contiguous pages
(of course starting on a page bondary-:).

Thanks for the thoughts, Jens. I ended up passing a mem= parameter to the kernel at startup to reserve the upper 4MB for two framebuffers, and then just ioremap'ing both of those blocks into virtual memory.

As for making those blocks visible to user memory, do I have to use /dev/kmem, or is there a more transparent way?
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