| US 7,496,930 B2 | ||
| Accessing device driver memory in programming language representation | ||
| Gerard Chauvel, Antibes (France); Serge Lasserre, Frejus (France); Dominique D'Inverno, Villeneuve Loubet (France); Maija Kuusela, Mouans Sartoux (France); Gilbert Cabillic, Brece (France); Jean-Philippe Lesot, Etrelles (France); Michel Banâtre, La Fresnais (France); Jean-Paul Routeau, Thorigné-Fouillard (France); Salam Majoul, Rennes (France); and Frédéric Parain, Rennes (France) | ||
| Assigned to Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, Tex. (US) | ||
| Filed on Apr. 22, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/831,575. | ||
| Claims priority of application No. 03291505 (EP), filed on Jun. 19, 2003. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2004/0261085 A1, Dec. 23, 2004 | ||
| Int. Cl. G06F 13/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 719—321 [711/202] | 26 Claims |
| 1. A storage medium comprising application software that performs one or more operations and that directly manages a device,
said application software comprising:
instructions that initialize an application data structure usable by the application software to manage the device; and
instructions that map at least a first portion of the application data structure to a memory associated with the device thereby
avoiding the use of a device driver function call to access the device on behalf of the application software;
wherein the format of the first portion of the application data structure is different than the format of memory associated
with the device.
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