--- Ian Romanick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a �crit : > emmanuel ALLAUD wrote: > > > This is perhaps a dumb idea, but could the futexes > > help here? I don't know if they have equivalent on > > other OSes than Linux. > > They would not help. A futex is a fast kernel / > user mutex. There is > no kernel part, so there is no way to use a futex. > If there were a > kernel part that submitted the DMA buffers and > serviced interrupts, > futexes would be a perfect fit.
That was exaclty what I was thinking about, but it seems that we lack a "kernel interface" to DMA which would achieve the kernel part of the thing here. BTW is it possible to have that? Bye Manu ___________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? -- Une adresse @yahoo.fr gratuite et en fran�ais ! Yahoo! Mail : http://fr.mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
