Kill DMA and DMA32 memory zones
a project by ptesarik
Updated 4 days ago. 3 hacker ♥️. 2 followers.

Description

Provide a better allocator for DMA-capable buffers, making the DMA and DMA32 zones obsolete.

Goals

Make a PoC kernel which can boot a x86 VM and a Raspberry Pi (because early RPi4 boards have some of the weirdest DMA constraints).

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This project is part of:

Hack Week 24

Activity

  • about 8 hours ago: michals liked this project.
  • 1 day ago: wpreston2 liked this project.
  • 1 day ago: jiriwiesner liked this project.
  • 4 days ago: ptesarik started this project.
  • 4 days ago: ptesarik added keyword "kernel" to this project.
  • 4 days ago: ptesarik added keyword "mm" to this project.
  • 4 days ago: ptesarik originated this project.


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