Software Help

["Bearzi, Anthony" <abearzi@harris.com>]

Hello,

I am trying to develop a small console application to test out an adapter
board and some of its onboard firmware routines. My platform is Windows NT
and here is where I run into a snag. I would like to have my console
application pass a local memory (CPU local) address to the PCI adapter card.
This will assert an interrupt within the adapter and an ISR (within the
adapter) will write a chunk of data from the adapter's memory to the address
that was provided. Passing the address is a simple write to the adapter's
inbound queue port. My problem is determining what is a valid address that I
can use that will not make NT unhappy. I also do not understand how I
translate this local memory address into a PCI address that makes sense to
the adapter.

I am guessing that first my application has to somehow lock or reserve a
chunk of local memory. Then I have to somehow determine the address of the
CPU's PCI bridge so that the adapter can write to BARx + some offset that
corresponds to the reserved target memory block.

Any and all help is greatly appreciated.

Thank you

Anthony