On Fri, 18 Jul 1997 16:46:20 -0500 
 "Todd T. Fries" <toddf@acm.org> wrote:

 > If you are talking about dma, it is not possible to do this because
 > of the fact that userspace is virtualized memory, which is fragmented,
 > and cannot be guaranteed in 64k chunks, which is required in pc hardware.

...nonsense.  You can scatter-gather to user memory.  In NetBSD's
bus dma framework, the user process can also allocate and map large
chunks of contiguous memory space, if it so wishes.

 > What is implemented, I do not know, merely letting you know what is possible.

I implemented everything necessary except for bus_dmamem_mmap(), which
is the user method for mapping DMA memory.  This is going to require an
interface change in the device pager... I haven't had the time to work
out all of the details, yet.

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