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From:	"Gerrit van Niekerk" <gerritvn AT gpvno DOT co DOT za>
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Date:	Mon, 24 Sep 2007 17:39:49 +0200
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Subject:	DMA and paging
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The DJGPP FAQ (http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/v2faq/faq18_13.html) tells 
me to use XMS when a large DMA buffer is required, do some mapping 
tricks and use farptr functions to transfer between DJGPP memory and the 
DMA memory. My understanding is that paging is to blame for this 
complexity. 

My question: If paging is disabled by either configuring CWSDPMI with 
CWSPARAM or using CWSDPR0, will the physical to logical address 
mapping be 1:1? Can the physical address to program the DMA unit be 
simply computed by the data segment and offset? 

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