> I was wondering that if a machine has 4 GB of physical RAM, then how > will the devices map their registers to memory? > > So if a device maps its registers in say memory address X, then will > that particular physical memory become inaccessible to the system? I think it should be true. It's inaccessible... -- Bora SAHIN - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs