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David Gillett wrote:
>>Memory-addressed cards seems different... infact if, in order to change
>>the state of the MEMCS16, I must decode the SA17-SA23 address, I deduce
>>that my 16 bit memory mapped device can be addressed only between
>>0x03FFFF and FFFFFF... is this right ?
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> Yes, and no. I think addresses below 0x00FFFF are used for the IVT, and I
>suspect that 0x010000-0x03FFFF may be reserved for other uses, too.
> On the other hand, addresses above 0x0FFFFF are available only from
>protected mode, as the result of decoding through a descriptor. So
>depending on your target software platform, those may be out of bounds as
>well.
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>David Gillett
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Hi David...
I'm still confused... also because I don't know what IVT stay for....
of course... I forgot to tell that I'm working with Linux OS in kernel
space, as I'm writing a kernel driver.
thanks again for your support,
Giampaolo Bellini
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