I wrote a simple program to test Au1200 MAE. The result is always that program will return -1 because pmms->struct_size=0, though it is assigned a value of 0xdc during initialization in the kernel. anyone could explain the reason for me? Thanks in advance. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- In user space: if ((fmae = open("/dev/mae", O_RDWR)) < 0) { printf("mae open failed.\n"); return -1; } gMemSize = ioctl(fmae, AU1XXXMAE_INIT, &ioc); maeaddr = mmap (0, gMemSize, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_SHARED | MAP_NONCACHED, fmae, 0); if (maeaddr == MAP_FAILED) { printf("mae: attempt to map memory failed.\n"); return -1; } pmms = (PMAE_MASTER_T)maeaddr; if (pmms->struct_size < sizeof(MAE_MASTER_T)) { printf("mae_driver, structure size mismatch: driver=%x interface=%d\n",pmms->struct_size, sizeof(MAE_MASTER_T)); return -1; } ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In kernel space,au1200's driver is listed as below: int au1xxxmae_mmap(struct file *filp, struct vm_area_struct *vma ) { unsigned long size = vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start; unsigned long offset = vma->vm_pgoff << PAGE_SHIFT; offset += mae_phys_address; vma->vm_page_prot = pgprot_cached(vma->vm_page_prot); if(remap_pfn_range(vma, vma->vm_start, offset >> PAGE_SHIFT, size, vma->vm_page_prot)) { DBGPRINT(ERRORS,"Could not remap the page range\n"); return -EFAULT; } vma->vm_flags &= ~VM_IO; vma->vm_ops = &au1xxx_vmaops; au1xxx_vma_open(vma); return 0; } void init_mae_structs(void) { unsigned char k,x[10]; pmms = (PMAE_MASTER_T) KRNL_MAE_MASTER_STRUCT; // pmms means ptr to mae master struct // initialize the master structure memset((PVOID)KRNL_MAE_MASTER_STRUCT, 0, sizeof(MAE_MASTER_T)); pmms->struct_size=sizeof(MAE_MASTER_T); //pmms->struct_size = 0xdc ... ... }