Date:	Wed, 7 Jun 1995 09:40:07 +0300
From:	eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii)
To:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	Re: Editing the GDT
Cc:	meyer AT shrike DOT und DOT ac DOT za

>I want to be able to access an arbitrary chunk of memory.. [grin, to those of
>you who know why] placed at 13meg, linear, 1 meg long.

>None of the selectors defined by default seem to point to the GDT [Am I way
>off track?]

There is a DPMI call which will let you map any physical address area into
your program's address space.  This is from the DJGPP FAQ list:
 
18.9  Q: How can I access memory-mapped peripheral devices (or any other
         absolute address) above 1 MByte mark?
      A: Currently, you can do this in one of two ways:
 
           * Under a true DPMI host (such as Windows or QDPMI) use DPMI
             function 0x0800 (i.e., Int 31h/AX=0800h).  It returns a
             linear address which can be used to access a given absolute
             physical address.  You can then use the functions from
             <sys/farptr.h> to access that linear address.  This will be
             the *only* way to access physical memory locations in DJGPP
             v2.0.
 
           * In non-DPMI mode, add 0xe0000000 to the physical address and
             use that as a pointer.  This feature will disappear in v2.0.
 
The latest version of the FAQ list is available as faq101.zip from the same
place you got DJGPP.

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