I am writing a device driver for an astronomical CCD camera. It works
very reliably when I poll the CCD for data. I would however like to
convert it to an interrupt driven version. The ISA-Bus card has a FIFO
holding 8k Pixels and it sends an interrupt when it is half full. I
have tried to wake up the process in the interrupt handler, but this
wasn't reliable under high load (sometimes the wakeup took to long and
the FIFO overflowed). Now I would like to try reading half a FIFO
worth of data from the card and copy it to the mlock()'d user buffer
directly in the interrupt handler. Is this possible at all, or do I
have to wakeup the process in order to do the copying from the read()
function?
-- kga
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