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Date:      Fri, 30 Aug 2002 08:30:18 -0500 (CDT)
From:      mark tinguely <tinguely@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, pavan.balaji@intel.com
Subject:   RE: Virtual Address to Physical Address translation
Message-ID:  <200208301330.g7UDUIS36125@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu>
In-Reply-To: <3D386AED1B47D411A94300508B11F18704AD69CC@fmsmsx116.fm.intel.com>

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>  I have one more question. Now, that I have the physical address (which is
>  locked, pinned, protected from swapping out), I need to write data to this.
>  I can't use normal copy functions, can I? Cause they expect the address to
>  be the virtual address.

in the kernel you use the kernel virtual address to assign/read data.
hardware devices require the physical address.

--mark tinguely.

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