From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: joe.korty@ccur.com
Cc: Jim Deas <jdeas@jadsystems.com>,
linux-kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Prefered method to map PCI memory into userspace.
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 02:40:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1064623209.631.26.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030926211740.GA27352@tsunami.ccur.com>
>
> Albert Cahalan wrote a patch, for 2.6, that makes mmappable all PCI device
> memory regions. They show up as files in the appropriate subdirectories
> under /proc/bus/pci. See http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/7/13/258 for the
> patch and details.
mmap of /proc/bus/pci is a standard thing in 2.4 already and so in 2.6
as well, though not all archs may implement it..
Regarding bus mastering, there's no way to do that without a kernel
driver.
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-27 0:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-26 20:53 Prefered method to map PCI memory into userspace Jim Deas
2003-09-26 21:17 ` Joe Korty
2003-09-27 0:40 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2003-09-27 4:00 ` David S. Miller
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2003-09-26 22:03 ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-27 4:01 ` David S. Miller
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[not found] ` <1064623209.631.26.camel@gaston.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
[not found] ` <20030926210034.3a1b4de7.davem@redhat.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2003-09-27 5:09 ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-27 23:39 ` David S. Miller
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[not found] ` <Aezg.6hA.9@gated-at.bofh.it>
2003-09-27 4:42 ` Andi Kleen
2003-09-26 13:59 ` Anton Blanchard
2003-09-27 23:38 ` David S. Miller
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