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From:	"Roland Zitzke" <NZEONTQYRAHL AT spammotel DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Obtaining the physical address of a pointer using PMODE
Date:	Wed, 16 Nov 2005 19:45:18 +0100
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Hello and thanks for the links.
as far as I can tell people were discussing to allocate mory in a fassion 
suitable for different extenders. However if I use pmode/dj, isn't there a 
way to malloc a chunk of memory and somehow detect the physical address of 
this chunk?

DOS with himem.sys installed and WITHOUT EMM386 is the only environment I am 
really interested in.

>
> Charles Sandmann gave us some example code, and put it at
> ftp://clio.rice.edu/djgpp/cwsdma.zip.  He was talking about cleaning
> it up and making it more publicized; I don't know if that ever happened.
>

I had a look at this code and I'm not sure I understand it completely.
In the test routine there's:
...
  dmabuf = AllocateDMABuffer(8*1024*1024);
  if(dmabuf)
    printf("Allocated 8M DMA buffer at DJGPP address 0x%x, physical 0x%x\n",
      dmabuf,Physical_Address(dmabuf));
...

and it appears to me if that's really all that is needed to allocate a chunk 
of memory and obtain the physical address for DMA.
However, the code goes on:

  i = physical_map(0, __djgpp_selector_limit, MAXSIZE, virtual, physical, 
size);
  if(i == 2)
    return printf("CWSDPMI PD in UMB not supported, sorry\n");
  if(i)
...

and I have no idea what that is good for i.e. what I need the physical_map 
function for.
Any hints?

Thanks in advance and regards
Roland

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