From:	"Campbell, Rolf [SKY:1U32:EXCH]" <cp1v45 AT americasm01 DOT nt DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Accessing memory above an adress of 1MB (read this and check my
	reasoning)
Date:	Mon, 09 Aug 1999 12:41:24 -0400
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Neil Goldberg wrote:

> > > Therefore I wrote a function that returns the (absolute) adress that
> > > has to be accessed. Usually it is around 0xFFFFF000 .
> > > I used __djgpp_map_physical_memory (mappedBAR, NoBytes, BaseAdr) for
> > > mapping the device to a created memory block named 'mappedBAR'; the
> > > number of bytes to map (NoBytes) is a multiple of a mem-page found
> > > with __dpmi_get_page_size(&NoBytes)  (4096 bytes) and the base adress
> > > (BaseAdr) is equal the absolute address of the BAR.
> >   Wow... FFFFF000 is pretty near the 4 gig limit.  Unless you have
> > 4 gig of ram, I think the PCI controller is lying to you.
> Note that __djgpp_map_physical_memory requires a DPMI 1.0 server, and
> only of the two commonly used ones (windows, cwsdpmi) is 1.0, while the
> other is .9. I can't remember which is which, but to check, try running
> the program in the OTHER environment to see if that works.

    Neither one is fully DPMI 1.0 complient.  CWSDPMI is partially 1.0, but I
don't think even that has implimented the __djgpp_map_physical_memory
function.  [I may be wrong, this is just from memory].

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     -Rolf Campbell (39)3-6318

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