Date: Sun, 24 Dec 1995 09:43:54 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: How to write in physical memory ? Message-ID: <199512240843.JAA29798@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199512232004.VAA10304@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from "Luigi Rizzo" at Dec 23, 95 09:04:42 pm
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As Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > what is the simplest way for a user process to access a portion of > the physical memory on a system ? More specifically, I would like to > peek/poke into the video memory of my S3 card. I didn't follow the technical discussion in the XFree86 beta list too closely, but it seems to me that you've got an application that could benefit from the upcoming DGA server extension. (It's currently in the beta stages.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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