Subject: Re: Panic: MMU fault :(
To: maximum entropy <entropy@zippy.bernstein.com>
From: Julian Coleman <J.D.Coleman@newcastle.ac.uk>
List: port-atari
Date: 01/05/1998 21:59:14
maximum entropy wrote:
> It doesn't really matter which bus_space_*() function is used; the
> same problems are present in any case. The bus_space_read_region_1()
Sorry, should have made myself clearer. I was trying to ask 'shouldn't
bus_space_read_region_1() be used here (graphics card), instead of
bus_space_read_multi_1()?'. bus_space_read_multi_N() doesn't seem that
useful here to me, but I might have missed something obvious.
> write if possible. Artificially limiting the length would mean more
> entries to the kernel from the user program, to accomplish the same
> result. Most device drivers simply compute the user-requested length,
> and the actual space left until "end of device", then use the smaller
> of the two as the length of the actual I/O to perform.
Makes sense.
Thanks,
J
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