Re: [MiNT] fVDI issues

[Frank Naumann <fnaumann@mail.cs.uni-magdeburg.de>]

Hello!

> > Speaking of that, I've not looked into if MiNT supports something like
> > the 'process local storage' that can be found in some operating
> > systems.
>
> If I understand what you need: a device driver has a possibility to allocate
> memory on the account of the calling process - with umalloc().

That's most probably not what he want.

>From my side it's planned to extend the kernel with a generic syscall
handler for AES/VDI syscalls and a way to attach management data directly
to the process descriptor. So a VDI/AES module only need to register the
system calls and can attach process specific management data.


Ciao
   ...Frank

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