Direct Memory Access? Mark
At 07:21 AM 1/7/2010, John Thornton wrote: >What is DMA? > >John > >On 6 Jan 2010 at 14:21, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote: > > > John Thornton wrote: > > > The 5i23 will not gain you anything for use with EMC. > > > > There is currently nothing to be gained by using the 5i23 over the > > 5i20, > > but there are two possible future advantages that may become real > > some > > time. One is that the 5i23 has a 400 Kgate FPGA (vs the 200 Kgate > > FPGA > > on the 5i20), the other is that the 5i23's PCI chipset can support > > DMA. > > > > There are currently no hostmot2 firmwares that don't fit in 200 > > Kgates, > > and the EMC2 hostmot2 driver does not currently use DMA. But who > > knows > > that 2010 will bring? > > > > > > -- > > Sebastian Kuzminsky ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
