X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f From: "philippe meynard" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: physical adress of int Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 10:30:04 +0200 Organization: Guest of France Telecom's news reading service Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: <4143499b DOT sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.161.106.155 X-Trace: s5.feed.news.oleane.net 1095064204 30535 62.161.106.155 (13 Sep 2004 08:30:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse AT oleane DOT net NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 08:30:04 +0000 (UTC) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com your files from http://clio.rice.edu/djgpp/cwsdma2.zip are good for my application Thanks a lot PM "Charles Sandmann" a écrit dans le message de news: 4143499b DOT sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu... > > I want to know a physical adress of my int variable, it's for my ethernet > > board for his initialisation. > > In general under DPMI you can't do this. However, it depends a lot on your > environment. Frequently the 640KB area is mapped 1:1 - so you can put > data there suitable for DMA usage. Since Windows can virtualize the DMA ports, > it will even remap requests to the first 640KB, so this technique works > well in many environments. > > If you need larger memory buffers that will not fit in the DOS memory area, > and are willing to stick to a single DPMI provider, you can use PMODE without > VCPI (which doesn't enable paging) so your virtual address is the same as > the physical address (you need to add the DS base to it's address). > > If you need a more compatible DPMI, you can use CWSDPMI and the files from > http://clio.rice.edu/djgpp/cwsdma2.zip