Re: vmapbuf (was:Which O/S routines are subject to change?)

1999-05-17 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Stan Shkolny s...@osgroup.com writes: [...] (BTW, I found it very-very-VERY helpful that I did it first under NT, since NT has kernel-mode debugger :-). Oh, and FreeBSD doesn't? DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - d...@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Re: vmapbuf (was:Which O/S routines are subject to change?)

1999-05-16 Thread Mike Smith
My character device driver receives a pointer to a user data buffer in the user's address space. I need to DMA those data. For this, I need to bring the pages into memory and lock them before initiating the DMA. My book tells about physio(). However, I found it unconvenient for me. One

Re: vmapbuf (was:Which O/S routines are subject to change?)

1999-05-16 Thread Stan Shkolny
-Original Message- From: Mike Smith m...@smith.net.au Date: Sunday, May 16, 1999 3:08 PM My character device driver receives a pointer to a user data buffer in the user's address space. I need to DMA those data. For this, I need to bring the pages into memory and lock them before

vmapbuf (was:Which O/S routines are subject to change?)

1999-05-11 Thread Stan Shkolny
Well, I see that I need to ask a more precise question. My character device driver receives a pointer to a user data buffer in the user's address space. I need to DMA those data. For this, I need to bring the pages into memory and lock them before initiating the DMA. My book tells about