Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2004 00:31:51 +0100
From: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>
To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
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Subject: Re: DMA API issues
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On 18 Jun 2004 18:07:30 -0500
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> wrote:

> 
> Well, yes, but the problem: chips have onboard memory is generic.  The
> proposed solution in the DMA API can't only work on certain platforms.

It will work on any platform where the memory is directly visible to the
CPU...

if this sint the case its not *D* MA (ie. *direct* memory access is it?
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