site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com On May 24, 2006, at 11:52 AM, Andrew Gallatin wrote: This comes up over, and over, and over again here. Is there any chance Apple can provide a centralized way to do this in the OS Yes. It's called a user-space process. = Mike _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-kernel mailing list (Darwin-kernel@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-kernel/site_archiver%40lists.a... Terry Lambert writes: If you need to do file I/O to load firmware (as an example), either put the firmware in a discardable section (vm_deallocate() it after it's loaded in the card), or have a user space daemon communicate the firmware to your driver via a series of ioctl() calls to push the data *temporarily* into the kernel, so it doesn't take up real or virtual memory in your driver. This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com