On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 11:47:13PM -0800, Philip Brown wrote:
> The docs at
> http://dri.sourceforge.net/doc/drm_low_level.html
> 
> say about drmAddMap(), for type DRM_SHM,
> 
> "A shared memory area of the requested size will be created and locked in
> kernel memory."
> 
> 
> Is that supposed to be the same thing as "locked in physical memory"?
> Because without specifying more exactly, under some OSes, it is not
> the same thing by default.

You have to better enlighten the difference between those.

In either case, the physical memory offset itself is not important since
the SAREA won't be accessed directly by the graphicas hardware: just the
kernel, X and the client.

José Fonseca


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