Determine DMA channels in use?

QNX USERS QNX2 and QNX4
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Dear All,

I am just wondering if there is any way to check the DMA Channels that are allocated during runtime on a QNX 4.25 machine. Something like sin irq would be fine but I can’t find anything in that direction…

Any information will be appreciated 8)

Thanks,
Jens Schirmer

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No it’s not possible.

3

Hum not entirely true, you can use show_pci to check which PCI devices have request DMA channel ( master card) but that’ about it.

4

Hi Mario,

thanks for your quick response. Unfortunately, we are using a legacy ISA Card, so it won’t show up on the show_pci command

Cheers,
Jens

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Jens,

Check out rsrcdbmgr_query(). Of course, it is a cooperative system, so as long as the ISA driver used rsrcdbmgr_attach() to reserve the DMA resource you’re in luck…

Rennie

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Hi Rennie,

nope, the ISA driver does not use rsrcdbmgr_attach(), so this not an option for us. I assume this would be QNX 6.x thing? We’re using 4.25…

But thanks for the hint, gonna have to migrate anyway some day :slight_smile:

Cheers,
Jens