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reserved memory areas

Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 12:36 am
by zobada
In protected mode are there reserved areas not to be used for another processes. For example Im using lfb pointer for screen drawings. I wonder if using video bios area(0xa0000-0xc0000) for another processes cause error, or is there a problem if I use the rom area(0xc0000-0xfffff)?

Re:reserved memory areas

Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2005 5:27 am
by Pype.Clicker
physical memory mappings to ROM or devices (such as video memory) remains in pmode. You may not include those areas in your process' address space by not paging them, though.