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Re:I/O Is Faster Than CPU – Let’s Partition Resources and El... by Unklejoe on Friday May 03, 2019 @08:22PM (#19823416)
> but DMA controllers will understand physical memory

Yup, this is what I’ve found on many embedded SoCs. It’s unfortunate. The fact that they need physical addresses makes them not worth using in many cases (mainly when trying to move user buffers around).

Re:I/O Is Faster Than CPU – Let’s Partition Resources and El... by hyc_symas on Saturday May 04, 2019 @01:58PM (#19828054)
Sun supported DMA to virtual addresses in SunOS / Solaris. Made some aspects of drivers easier.