Writing Device Drivers for Oracle® Solaris 11.2

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Updated: September 2014
 
 

DMA Operations

The steps in a DMA transfer are similar among the types of DMA. The following sections present methods for performing DMA transfers.


Note - You do not need to ensure that the DMA object is locked in memory in block drivers for buffers that come from the file system. The file system has already locked the data in memory.