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To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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Subject: Re: When is the new sound code being committed? 
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>From The Desk Of Luigi Rizzo :

> if the kernel is expected to use this Sound Module as an LKM, put
> apart the required amount of memory early in the boot process, and
> serve memory requests from the sound driver from there.

You mean like storing the memory in a global like this? 8)
    USSmem = contigmalloc(64*1024, M_DEVBUF, M_NOWAIT, 0ul, 0x
fffffful,
                       1ul, chan & 4 ? 0x20000ul : 0x10000ul);
    USSmem_size= 64*1024;


	Amancio