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- From: root@candle.uucp (Bruce Momjian)
- Subject: Clearing memory in SVr3 device drivers
- Organization: a consultant's basement
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 03:45:38 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.034538.414@candle.uucp>
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- How do you clear out memory that is aligned in pages in a device driver
- under SVr3.1? Either physical or virtual address clearing will do.
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- I am currently writing 0's ints into the memory locations. The memory
- is 64k wide, so I figure there must be a better way.
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