Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 30 Aug 2000 20:01:17 -0300 | From | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <> | Subject | Re: Reserving a (large) memory block |
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Em Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 03:42:15PM -0700, J C Lawrence escreveu: > Alan, > > I'm working on a device driver for a device that sits on the PC > memory bus. I need to reserve/protect the memory range that the > device occupies from the rest of the kernel/system. How do I do > that? I think I see how I can mark blocks that are never to be > touched, but in this case the driver (obviously) needs to be able to > touch them, but the rest of the kernel must be hands-off. > > <<Reply-To set as this address has a flekey mail server I haven't > managed to evict yet>>
Look at drivers/media/video/zr36120_mem.c, it might help you.
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