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kathir1 June 9, 2025, 7:02am 1

Hi ,
currently i am using nvidia jetsion orin nx 16 ram and i cannot allocated CMA memory more than 512mb ,may i know i why ,in my use case i need to allocate 1gb cma memory ?

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