> However, what I'd really like to do is to leave it to user space to
> allocate the memory as David describes. In the transmit case, user
> space allocates memory (malloc or mmap) and loads the payload into
> that buffer.
there is a lot of pain involved with doing things this way, it is a TON
better if YOU provide the memory via a custom mmap handler for a device
driver.
(there are a lot of security nightmares involved with the opposite
model, like the user can put any kind of memory there, even pci mmio
space)
> Then is does an ioctl() on the firewire control device
ioctls are evil ;) esp an "mmap me" ioctl
> It's not too difficult from what I'm doing now, I'd just like to give
> user space more control over the buffers it uses for streaming (i.e.
> letting user space allocate them). What I'm missing here is: how do I
> actually pin a page in memory? I'm sure it's not too difficult, but I
> haven't yet figured it out and I'm sure somebody knows it off the top
> of his head.
again the best way is for you to provide an mmap method... you can then
fill in the pages and keep that in some sort of array; this is for
example also what the DRI/DRM layer does for textures etc...
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