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Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!chsun!Germany.EU.net!hcshh!hm From: hm@hcshh.hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: BSD / 386BSD - two kernel/driver questions Keywords: BSD 386BSD kernel-malloc / shutdown awareness of a driver Message-ID: <1583@hcshh.hcs.de> Date: 7 Oct 92 18:53:51 GMT Organization: HCS GmbH, Hamburg, Europe Lines: 16 1. is it possible to malloc/free some memory inside a driver, or the other way around, is there a kernel_malloc(), kernel_free() ? (copy video memory -> temp memory/process contents -> video memory) 2. can a driver be made aware of a system shutdown/reboot/halt to perform some special action ? (switch a virtual screen system to /dev/console to see all those messages while the system is going down) hellmuth -- hellmuth michaelis HCS Hanseatischer Computerservice GmbH hamburg, europe hm@hcshh.hcs.de tel: +49/40/55903-170 fax: +49/40/5591486