On 11 June 2012 14:15, Anthony Liguori <aligu...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > From what you said earlier, it's basically: > > 'write data to this address' > 'read data from this address' > > An interface that implements this is DMAContext. Forget about the fact that > 'DMA' is in the name. It's really the symmetric version of a MemoryRegion.
...so can we fix the name? Ideally the interface used by DMA controllers should be identical to the interface used by CPUs to talk to the rest of the system: it's exactly the same bus interface in hardware, after all. -- PMM
