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Re: Buffer at fixed memory address ?

Hello !
Thanks for reply.
On Sunday 09 January 2005 20:03, Om wrote:
> I don't know whether it is the right solution, but definitely you can do
> this. I did
> the same thing when I wanted to map board memory to some address.
> You have to do a mmap() on /dev/mem with the address you have to map if
> you want to
> do it from userspace. In kernel you can use an ioremap() call for this.
But what will happen if memory which I try to remap are already in use ? Will 
kernel automatically free that memory ?

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         Vladimir

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