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Date:      Tue, 24 Jun 1997 12:07:37 +0930 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer)
Cc:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, un_x@anchorage.net, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: direct access
Message-ID:  <199706240237.MAA21926@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <33AEB13C.2781E494@whistle.com> from Julian Elischer at "Jun 23, 97 10:24:12 am"

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Julian Elischer stands accused of saying:
> Michael Smith wrote:
> > 
> > One of these mappings arranges pages so that kernel virtual addresses
> > in the range 0xa0000-0xfffff refer to physical addresses
> > 0xa0000-0xfffff, in order to make life slightly easier for ISA
> > drivers.  It doesn't apply to user processes, which have their own
> > mappings.
> > 
> >
> 
> *GONG*
> the kernel maps 0xa0000->0xfffff to 0xf00a000->0xf00fffff

So sue me; I use KVTOPHYS()/PHYSTOKV() all the time anyway, as we 
all should 8)

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