hartmannathan commented on pull request #4900:
URL: https://github.com/apache/incubator-nuttx/pull/4900#issuecomment-981127474


   > This seems like a very strange user-space OS access. I don't think Linux 
would permit this.
   > 
   > DMA memory is normally well protected for security reasons. Would this 
work in KERNEL and PROTECTED modes where DMA memory is allocated from a 
supervisor mode memory pool?
   
   Yes come to think of it, my earlier thought to expose it to applications via 
an ioctl is not necessary, but I think the other parts of my comment are valid. 
(I was thinking of situations needing highly-optimized, zero-copy transfers.)


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