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Date:      Sun, 1 Feb 2009 21:37:54 +0100
From:      Alexej Sokolov <bsd.quest@googlemail.com>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   bus_dma (9). What exactly means "Loading of memory allocation" ?
Message-ID:  <671bb5fc0902011237j19dc7fc5o881649228c121bf2@mail.gmail.com>

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Hi,
at first the cut of text from man (9) bus_dma:
bus_dmamap_t
             A machine-dependent opaque type describing an individual
mapping.
             One map is used for each memory allocation that will be loaded.
             Maps can be reused once they have been unloaded...

Question: What exactly means "Loading of memory allocation" in this context
?
Could anyone explain it or give me some little example with DMA functions
for understanding it.

Thanks a lot,
Alexej



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