> however if several applications want to access the same DMA controller > at the sam time things get complicated. there is no communication > between these applications.
Exactly. That's what the API would somehow need to manage. I'm thinking a program would somehow need to register as the "owner" of the DMA channel (similar to how the API works now where a program registers as "owner" of an I/O port). But, there may some alternative way to handle it as well that doesn't involve a "registration" -- I'm not sure. In the end it's critical that there only be one "manager" of each resource or you'll end up with a big mess. _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
