Please see inline. Plz correct me if I am wrong. On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Mulyadi Santosa <[email protected] > wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 11:39, Prabhu nath <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks a lot for the clarification. > > Is that not a big hole that the kernel provides ?. > > Naively...you can say so...but AFAIK it serves for some (legacy) purpose: > - Wine...or DOSEMU..or dosbox...can't recall which one that used it once... > > - X server/ X org...once use it too... > X server/X org uses the device memory to write frame data and if it wants system memory, it can legally ask kernel thru malloc/calloc. IMHO, I feel mem could have been restricted to device addresses rather than memory address. Though at this point I do not know whether it servers any bigger purpose. Thanks, Prabhu > > > -- > regards, > > Mulyadi Santosa > Freelance Linux trainer and consultant > > blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com > training: mulyaditraining.blogspot.com >
