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From:	ulfg AT groundhog DOT phy DOT nist DOT gov (Ulf Griesmann)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	how to allocate DMA pages ?
Date:	10 Feb 1996 20:59:53 GMT
Organization:	NIST
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Message-ID:	<4fj109$o5f@dove.nist.gov>
NNTP-Posting-Host:	groundhog.phy.nist.gov
Summary:	[Q] allocating DMA pages with DJGPP
Keywords:	DMA pages and DJGPP
To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
DJ-Gateway:	from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp

Hello All,

The 8237 DMA controllers in a PC can only perform DMA transfers to the 
lower 16MB of physical memory. This makes it awkward to allocate 
buffers for DMA transfers on machines with >16MB of memory because a 
simple 'malloc' is no longer guaranteed to allocate DMAable memory.
Does anyone out there know of a good strategy for allocating DMA buffers 
which works on large memory machines ? (Will take source code...)

Thank you,
  Ulf

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