Re: malloc()? vmalloc()? kmalloc()?

Rogier Wolff (R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl)
Tue, 4 Aug 1998 10:16:27 +0200 (MEST)

Carsten Pluntke wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm thinking about a device driver (for a framegrabber card, to be more
> specific) and it would need a quite large frame buffer because after a
> snapshot it should have the whole image at random access, if I read the
> code for video4linux correctly...

Take a peek at:

http://samba.anu.edu.au/linux-patches?findid=267

It does exactly what you want. (You'll have to do the mmap buffer yourself).

Roger.

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