Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!killer!egs
From: egs@killer.UUCP (Eric Schnoebelen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Physical Memory allocation
Keywords: allocation of memory at a particular place.
Message-ID: <4490@killer.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jun 88 20:17:05 GMT
Organization: The Unix(R) Connection, Dallas, Texas
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Hi.
	I need to allocate a particular piece of memory for a driver.  The
card has an onboard buffer in ROM space on the PC that the driver needs to
be able to read and write.  I assume I need to allocate a memory descriptor
of some kind in the kernel to do this ( I have already gotten the segment
violation panic without doing this ).  The question is: How do I do this
under Microport SysV/AT?  What about under SysV/386 ( I plan on porting the
driver real soon )?  Any pointers would be useful.  And I have read the
runtime manual about adding device drivers, with no mention of a seemingly
appropriate function.  

	Thanks
		
		Eric Schnoebelen
		John W. Bridges & Assoc., Inc
		Lewisville, Tx
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