On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 04:10:52PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > On Tuesday 25 October 2005 02:46 pm, Dinesh Nair wrote: [...] > > > thus when you send data to your device, that is a WRITE operation (even > > > though your device is doing a DMA to read data), and when you get data > > > back from your device, that is a READ operation (even though your device > > > is doing a DMA to write the data into the buffer). > > > > thanx, the verbiage on the man page is slightly confusing with it's use of > > CPU, giving the opposite impression. > > Yes, I know. :) > Please go read the HEAD version of the manpage; it's been fixed recently to improve the description of these details.
Cheers, -- Ruslan Ermilov [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD committer
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