2011/6/28 Martin Kielhorn <[email protected]>:
> 2011/6/28 Martin Kielhorn <[email protected]>:
>> Hi list,
>> is it possible to synchronise the drawing process to the vsync cycle of the
>> graphics
>> card from user level?
>
> I found a 2005 patch from Peter Chubb that would create
> /proc/irq/<nnn>/irq that would block until an irq is received.
>

Peter Chubb also suggests the UIO framework:
[...]
There are basically two ways.  You can use something like my patch, or
you can write a driver that tells userspace when the interrupt
happens.  There is an in-kernel framework for user-level PCI device drivers:
take a look at drivers/uio in the kernel source.  There appears to be
no documentation.
[...]

Regards, Martin
-- 
Martin Kielhorn
Randall Division of Cell & Molecular Biophysics
King's College London, New Hunt's House
Guy's Campus, London SE1 1UL, U.K.
tel: +44 (0) 207 848 6519,  fax: +44 (0) 207 848 6435
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