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From: mark tinguely <tinguely@web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu>
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To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, pavan.balaji@intel.com
Subject: RE: Virtual Address to Physical Address translation
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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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