Re: mapping physical memory

2001-01-26 Thread Pauline Middelink
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001 around 05:39:38 -0500, Dan Maas wrote: > > I need to be able to obtain and pin approximately 8 MB of > > contiguous physical memory in user space. How would I go > > about doing that under Linux if it is at all possible? > > The only way to allocate that much *physically* con

Re: mapping physical memory

2001-01-26 Thread Dan Maas
> I need to be able to obtain and pin approximately 8 MB of > contiguous physical memory in user space. How would I go > about doing that under Linux if it is at all possible? The only way to allocate that much *physically* contiguous memory is by writing a driver that grabs it at boot-time (I t