Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Jan 1999 11:43:17 +0100 | From | Philipp Rumpf <> | Subject | Re: User mode Virt -> Phys |
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On Tue, Jan 12, 1999 at 12:54:45AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > The linux kernel is full of calls to virt_to_phys. This function seems > > only to work in kernel mode. Is there a way to convert a physical address > > to a virtual address in user mode (from a regular program)? > > No. Nor should there ever need to be.
Wouldn't that just be a mmap() of /dev/mem ?
Philipp Rumpf
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