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SubjectRe: The Linux Staging tree, what it is and is not.
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Alan Cox wrote:

>> information of what to copy to where comes from the object dictionary.
>> But it is possible to extract this information from the objdict and pass
>> it via generic structures (e.g. something like IO vectors) to the PDO
>> module in kernel. The information flow of the configuration data is
>> one-way only, from userspace to kernel. This is what I plan to implement
>> in openPOWERLINK, because the copy information can also be passed to a
>> special hardware like a DMA controller.
>
> Ok so your hardware in fact really is oriented around an mmap type
> interface ?

what I understand from this thread is that the hardware is a standard
ethernet card.

David Lang


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