On Tuesday 01 February 2005 23:44, Daniel Phillips wrote:
[...]
> My suggestion here is to send the DMA setup commands through the command
> ring buffer, that way the card can worry about initiating each
> successive transfer immediately after the preceding one is finished,
> and we can dispense with the complexities of scatter-gather.  To signal
> final completion the driver could put an "interrupt me" command in the
> command buffer, or there could be some logic for generating an
> interrupt when both DMA is finished and the command buffer is empty.

It seems to me that this is similar to what I tried to describe. At least it's 
the same kind of objective: doing something like scatter-gather. But do you 
think such operation is feasible in "direct mode" too?

> This is a half-formed idea, it obviously has holes in it, but somewhere
> in there is a nice strategy I think.

Agreed.

Rodolphe
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