kernel driver access application memory

m silverstri michael.j.silverstri at gmail.com
Wed Jan 15 13:15:35 EST 2014


Hi,

If my application allocate memory for input and output buffers,  and
pass the pointer to a kernel driver (via v4l2 queue buffer operation),
can the kernel driver access it? Do I need to setup DMA before teh
kernel driver can read/write to it?

Thank you.



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