are they physical address?

hi

http://www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book/ch02.html

00000000-0009fbff : System RAM
0009fc00-0009ffff : reserved
000a0000-000bffff : Video RAM area
000c0000-000c7fff : Video ROM
000f0000-000fffff : System ROM
00100000-03feffff : System RAM
00100000-0022c557 : Kernel code
0022c558-0024455f : Kernel data
20000000-2fffffff : Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX -
82443BX/ZX Host bridge
68000000-68000fff : Texas Instruments PCI1225
68001000-68001fff : Texas Instruments PCI1225 (#2)
e0000000-e3ffffff : PCI Bus #01
e4000000-e7ffffff : PCI Bus #01
e4000000-e4ffffff : ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage LT
Pro AGP-133
e6000000-e6000fff : ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage LT
Pro AGP-133
fffc0000-ffffffff : reserved
what is it reserved for?

if somebody can explin me this:

"Once again, the values shown are hexadecimal ranges,
and the string after the colon is the name of the
"owner" of the I/O region. "

thanks

ankit

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Re: are they physical address?

On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 08:14:25 +0100 (BST), Ankit Jain
wrote:
> hi
>
> http://www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book/ch02.html
>
> 00000000-0009fbff : System RAM
> 0009fc00-0009ffff : reserved
> 000a0000-000bffff : Video RAM area
> 000c0000-000c7fff : Video ROM
> 000f0000-000fffff : System ROM
> 00100000-03feffff : System RAM
> 00100000-0022c557 : Kernel code
> 0022c558-0024455f : Kernel data
> 20000000-2fffffff : Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX -
> 82443BX/ZX Host bridge
> 68000000-68000fff : Texas Instruments PCI1225
> 68001000-68001fff : Texas Instruments PCI1225 (#2)
> e0000000-e3ffffff : PCI Bus #01
> e4000000-e7ffffff : PCI Bus #01
> e4000000-e4ffffff : ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage LT
> Pro AGP-133
> e6000000-e6000fff : ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage LT
> Pro AGP-133
> fffc0000-ffffffff : reserved
> what is it reserved for?
>
> if somebody can explin me this:
>
> "Once again, the values shown are hexadecimal ranges,
> and the string after the colon is the name of the
> "owner" of the I/O region. "
>
> thanks
>
> ankit

Hi,
Yes that is the Physical address.
It means The address are given in Hexadecimal Values. In order to use
the memory region, The driver should request the region by,
int request_mem_region(unsigned long start, unsigned long len,
char *name);
start and end are the address range and name is the owner's name.
So if you do,
request_mem_region(0xe7000000, 0xea000000, "Ankit");
You will see,
e7000000-ea000000 : Ankit

I think it clears some doubt.

Regards
manish
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Re: are they physical address?

Ankit Jain wrote:

>hi
>
>http://www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book/ch02.html
>
> 00000000-0009fbff : System RAM
> 0009fc00-0009ffff : reserved
> 000a0000-000bffff : Video RAM area
> 000c0000-000c7fff : Video ROM
> 000f0000-000fffff : System ROM
> 00100000-03feffff : System RAM
> 00100000-0022c557 : Kernel code
> 0022c558-0024455f : Kernel data
> 20000000-2fffffff : Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX -
>82443BX/ZX Host bridge
> 68000000-68000fff : Texas Instruments PCI1225
> 68001000-68001fff : Texas Instruments PCI1225 (#2)
> e0000000-e3ffffff : PCI Bus #01
> e4000000-e7ffffff : PCI Bus #01
> e4000000-e4ffffff : ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage LT
>Pro AGP-133
> e6000000-e6000fff : ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage LT
>Pro AGP-133
> fffc0000-ffffffff : reserved
>what is it reserved for?
>
>if somebody can explin me this:
>
>"Once again, the values shown are hexadecimal ranges,
>and the string after the colon is the name of the
>"owner" of the I/O region. "
>
>
>

What you are seeing is the remapped I/O space for various components in
your computer. During bootup, the kernel scans the various buses and
identifies various devices. Each driver remaps the I/O space for PCI
devices - they are physical addresses in that those memory addresses do
map to real devices, but they are not real memory addresses.

IIRC, the "reserved" area is the remapped kernel address space - they
set it up to remap to the top of the 32-bit memory address range in
order to allow hard-coded function calls - it is faster to hard-code the
function calls than to maintain symbol tables.

I see this computer is a laptop - now I understand why you are reluctant
to upgrade the RAM.

>thanks
>
>ankit
>
>

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Re: physical address?

thanks a lot for helping all the way

see inline

--- Jim Nelson wrote:
> Ankit Jain wrote:
>
> >hi
> >
> >http://www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book/ch02.html
> >
> > 00000000-0009fbff : System RAM
> > 0009fc00-0009ffff : reserved
> > 000a0000-000bffff : Video RAM area
> > 000c0000-000c7fff : Video ROM
> > 000f0000-000fffff : System ROM
> > 00100000-03feffff : System RAM
> > 00100000-0022c557 : Kernel code
> > 0022c558-0024455f : Kernel data
> > 20000000-2fffffff : Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX -
> >82443BX/ZX Host bridge
> > 68000000-68000fff : Texas Instruments PCI1225
> > 68001000-68001fff : Texas Instruments PCI1225 (#2)
> > e0000000-e3ffffff : PCI Bus #01
> > e4000000-e7ffffff : PCI Bus #01
> > e4000000-e4ffffff : ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage
> LT
> >Pro AGP-133
> > e6000000-e6000fff : ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage
> LT
> >Pro AGP-133
> > fffc0000-ffffffff : reserved
> >what is it reserved for?
> >
> >if somebody can explin me this:
> >
> >"Once again, the values shown are hexadecimal
> ranges,
> >and the string after the colon is the name of the
> >"owner" of the I/O region. "
> >
> >
> >
>
> What you are seeing is the remapped I/O space for
> various components in
> your computer. During bootup, the kernel scans the
> various buses and
> identifies various devices. Each driver remaps the
> I/O space for PCI
> devices - "they are physical addresses in that those
> memory addresses do
> map to real devices, but they are not real memory
> addresses."

what do u mean by this? they are physical address but
not the real memory address? what do u mean by
physical address then?

>
> IIRC, the "reserved" area is the remapped kernel
> address space - they
> set it up to remap to the top of the 32-bit memory
> address range in
> order to allow hard-coded function calls - it is
> faster to hard-code the
> function calls than to maintain symbol tables.

what is hard coded funtion calls? is it something like
stting the pointer to starting location?

> I see this computer is a laptop - now I understand
> why you are reluctant
> to upgrade the RAM.

what tells that this is a laptop?


> >thanks
> >
> >ankit
> >
> >
>
>

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Re: physical address?

Ankit Jain wrote:

>thanks a lot for helping all the way
>
>see inline
>
> --- Jim Nelson wrote:
>
>
>>Ankit Jain wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>hi
>>>
>>>http://www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book/ch02.html
>>>
>>>00000000-0009fbff : System RAM
>>>0009fc00-0009ffff : reserved
>>>000a0000-000bffff : Video RAM area
>>>000c0000-000c7fff : Video ROM
>>>000f0000-000fffff : System ROM
>>>00100000-03feffff : System RAM
>>> 00100000-0022c557 : Kernel code
>>> 0022c558-0024455f : Kernel data
>>>20000000-2fffffff : Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX -
>>>82443BX/ZX Host bridge
>>>68000000-68000fff : Texas Instruments PCI1225
>>>68001000-68001fff : Texas Instruments PCI1225 (#2)
>>>e0000000-e3ffffff : PCI Bus #01
>>>e4000000-e7ffffff : PCI Bus #01
>>> e4000000-e4ffffff : ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage
>>>
>>>
>>LT
>>
>>
>>>Pro AGP-133
>>> e6000000-e6000fff : ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage
>>>
>>>
>>LT
>>
>>> <>Pro AGP-133
>>> fffc0000-ffffffff : reserved
>>> what is it reserved for?
>>>
>>> if somebody can explin me this:
>>>
>>> "Once again, the values shown are hexadecimal ranges, and the string
>>> after the colon is the name of the "owner" of the I/O region."
>>
>>>
>>>
>>What you are seeing is the remapped I/O space for
>>various components in
>>your computer. During bootup, the kernel scans the
>>various buses and
>>identifies various devices. Each driver remaps the
>>I/O space for PCI
>>devices - "they are physical addresses in that those
>>memory addresses do
>>map to real devices, but they are not real memory
>>addresses."
>>
>>
>
>what do u mean by this? they are physical address but
>not the real memory address? what do u mean by
>physical address then?
>
>
>

Most modern computer components have an I/O range built in - like a
graphics card, for example, will have the pixel maps, etc. for the
display, an IDE controller will have a configuration area, status
information, etc. Using PCI for an example, each adapter card has a
certain amount of memory and register space. The virtual addresses
allow you to use standard memory-oriented commands to access the
devices. The x86 system has a different set of machine instruations for
I/O (at least for the legacy components - serial & parallel ports,
keyboard, mouse, system speaker, etc.) but most other architectures
don't have that same kind of split - you just segment off an area of the
address space and call it an adapter. It's not the easiest thing in the
world to grok - I just barely understand it myself.

>>IIRC, the "reserved" area is the remapped kernel
>>address space - they
>>set it up to remap to the top of the 32-bit memory
>>address range in
>>order to allow hard-coded function calls - it is
>>faster to hard-code the
>>function calls than to maintain symbol tables.
>>
>>
>
>what is hard coded funtion calls? is it something like
>stting the pointer to starting location?
>
>
>

More like not having to go to a call table or calculate relative
offsets. It saves time, to keep addresses of various parts of the
kernel in predictable places. Any large program (Windows programs come
to mind) will load various parts of itself at different times. Keeping
track of where in memory all those functions are located takes processor
time - for each subroutine called.

If you don't allow things to move around in memory, you can just jump to
the address of the target subroutine. No fuss, no bother. That's how
DOS interrupts were handled, by the way - you had to load your interrupt
handler at a specific location in memory. It makes for a smaller,
faster executable at the cost of some fragility when you try and muck
with it.

Sorry if that's a little confused, but I'm just starting to get my chops
on w/ programming anything beyond silly toys.

>>I see this computer is a laptop - now I understand
>>why you are reluctant
>>to upgrade the RAM.
>>
>>
>
>what tells that this is a laptop?
>
>
>
>

68000000-68000fff : Texas Instruments PCI1225
68001000-68001fff : Texas Instruments PCI1225 (#2)


Texas Instruments CardBus slots. Educated guess - there are
CardBus-to-PCI adapters available, but are pretty rare - not the kind of
things that you'd see in a novice's computer. I'm looking at getting
one myself, but that's because I have a project for my day job that
involves some PCMCIA hacking, and my old laptop isn't feeling up to the
job, I think.

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Re: physical address?

>>
>> what tells that this is a laptop?
>>
>>
>>
>
> 68000000-68000fff : Texas Instruments PCI1225
> 68001000-68001fff : Texas Instruments PCI1225 (#2)
>
>
> Texas Instruments CardBus slots. Educated guess - there are
> CardBus-to-PCI adapters available, but are pretty rare - not the kind
> of things that you'd see in a novice's computer. I'm looking at
> getting one myself, but that's because I have a project for my day job
> that involves some PCMCIA hacking, and my old laptop isn't feeling up
> to the job, I think.
>

Duhhh - Should have looked at the link before posting - that /proc/iomem
listing is right out of the text - the exact same #$@* book I'm reading
right now! If this is a laptop you actually are using, I guess we can
blame that one on the Force...

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Re: physical address?

--- Jim Nelson wrote:
>
> >>
> >> what tells that this is a laptop?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> > 68000000-68000fff : Texas Instruments PCI1225
> > 68001000-68001fff : Texas Instruments PCI1225 (#2)
> >
> >
> > Texas Instruments CardBus slots. Educated guess -
> there are
> > CardBus-to-PCI adapters available, but are pretty
> rare - not the kind
> > of things that you'd see in a novice's computer.
> I'm looking at
> > getting one myself, but that's because I have a
> project for my day job
> > that involves some PCMCIA hacking, and my old
> laptop isn't feeling up
> > to the job, I think.
> >
>
> Duhhh - Should have looked at the link before
> posting - that /proc/iomem
> listing is right out of the text - the exact same
> #$@* book I'm reading
> right now! If this is a laptop you actually are
> using, I guess we can
> blame that one on the Force...

haha...i am sorry but i am not using a laptop. great
...... thats why asked who told its a laptop.

its really fun working ... sometimes its really
humrous...

anyways....that was really a educated guess.....

regarads,

ankit
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Re: are they physical address?

These are the I/O mem regions registered by (or reserved for) the
driver modules (the "owners") so they don't interfere in each other's
fields.

- Ratnadeep

On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 08:14:25 +0100 (BST), Ankit Jain
wrote:
> hi
>
> http://www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book/ch02.html
>
> 00000000-0009fbff : System RAM
> 0009fc00-0009ffff : reserved
> 000a0000-000bffff : Video RAM area
> 000c0000-000c7fff : Video ROM
> 000f0000-000fffff : System ROM
> 00100000-03feffff : System RAM
> 00100000-0022c557 : Kernel code
> 0022c558-0024455f : Kernel data
> 20000000-2fffffff : Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX -
> 82443BX/ZX Host bridge
> 68000000-68000fff : Texas Instruments PCI1225
> 68001000-68001fff : Texas Instruments PCI1225 (#2)
> e0000000-e3ffffff : PCI Bus #01
> e4000000-e7ffffff : PCI Bus #01
> e4000000-e4ffffff : ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage LT
> Pro AGP-133
> e6000000-e6000fff : ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage LT
> Pro AGP-133
> fffc0000-ffffffff : reserved
> what is it reserved for?
>
> if somebody can explin me this:
>
> "Once again, the values shown are hexadecimal ranges,
> and the string after the colon is the name of the
> "owner" of the I/O region. "
>
> thanks
>
> ankit
>
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