Re: DMA across PCI

[Neal Palmer <neal@dinigroup.com>]

> I am guessing that there is no such thing as DMA in the PCI world. Is
> that the case ?

Yes.  

> I further guess that the closest thing to DMA is a Master read or a
> Master write cylce.

What all of us are calling DMA is basically any data transfer where a CPU
is not in control of every single byte transfer (i.e. a CPU tells some
other hardware to transfer a large chunk of data).

-- Neal Palmer

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