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SubjectRe: mmap RAM?
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neal@ctd.comsat.com said:
> I am trying to write a driver for a new device. It is an MPEG2 video
> *encoder*. The device sits on a PCI bus. It wants to DMA encoded
> video to the host RAM.


ftp://ft.picturel.com/pub/source/mmap.tgz

It works a page at a time because the kernel does lazy mapping, and anyhow
may choose to forget random pages at random times. You also need to go
through some of the other hoops to keep module reference counts correct.
Take a look at the example at the above ftp site.

Also, note that you cannot either the device must scatter-gather, or
you use something like bigphysarea to get large contiguous buffers.
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