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Copying the memory controller means of DMA.

idata
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Hello!

 

There were some problems when programming DMA(bas. 8237А) controller in copy memory mode(memory-to-memory). I ask for your help.

 

I'm trying to copy the physical memory. You must perform the second movement of the memory controller, as the x16 registers and the address range 16M. First, try to run through the first movement of memory controller as a test.

 

To verify the results of operations and loading initial data used by the mapping of the first page of physical memory by the function(OS: NT, Protected mode, Ring 0) MmMapIoSpace(), but not in this sense.

 

My Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-8IPE1000MK, CPU: P4

 

After reviewing the documentation on the controller has written the following code.

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LATCHB EQU 83H 

CLEAR_F EQU 0CH

 

CH0_A EQU 00H

 

CH1_A EQU 02H

 

CH0_C EQU 01H

 

CH1_C EQU 03H

 

MODE EQU 0BH

 

CMMD EQU 08H

 

MASKS EQU 0FH

 

REQ EQU 09H

 

STATUS EQU 08H

TRANSMIT PROC 

PUSHFD ; Save IF

 

CLI

 

XOR AX,AX

 

OUT LATCHB,AL ; Page

 

OUT CLEAR_F,AL

OUT CH0_A,AL ; Source: 0x0000

 

OUT CH0_A,AL  MOV AL,16 OUT CH1_A,AL ; Destination: 0x000F

 

XOR AX,AX OUT CH1_A,AL  MOV AL,32 OUT CH0_C,AL ; Length XOR AX,AX OUT CH0_C,AL

MOV AL,32 

OUT CH1_C,AL

 

XOR AX,AX

 

OUT CH1_C,AL

MOV AL,88H 

OUT MODE,AL ; Chanel 0, read, increment, blocks.

 

 MOV AL,85H OUT MODE,AL ; Chanel 1, write, increment, blocks.

 

 MOV AL,1 OUT CMMD,AL ; Memory-to-memory

 

 MOV AL,0CH OUT MASKS,AL ; Unmask chanels 0, 1

 

 ; MOV AL,4 ; OUT REQ,AL ; Request to chanel 0.

 

MOV AL,5 OUT REQ,AL ; Request to chanel 1.

 

@@: ; IN AL,STATUS ; TEST AL,1 ; JZ @B POPFD ; Restore IF

 

RET TRANSMIT ENDP

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As a result, this code does not work. The memory is filled with the value 0xFFFF.. The documentation for this mode(memory-to-memory) is described very briefly. Perhaps this mode is not supported..

 

I would like to see a working example or a detailed description of the programming mode.

Thank.

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