[ECOS] allocating heap memory in redboot ethernet driver
Andrew Lunn
andrew@lunn.ch
Tue Feb 21 13:06:00 GMT 2006
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 05:23:44PM +0500, Asim Jamshed wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Which function do I use in allocating dynamic memory for my pointer
> variables in the ethernet source code.
Ethernet drivers don't use dynamically allocated memory. The only
exception that i know of is when you need to allocate memory from the
PCI window. For this take a look at one of the drivers which does
this, the function is normally called pciwindow_mem_alloc().
Andrew
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