Re: A scrub daemon (prezeroing)

From: David Woodhouse (dwmw2_at_infradead.org)
Date: 02/02/05

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    To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
Date:	Wed, 02 Feb 2005 21:33:45 +0000

    On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 21:00 +0000, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
    > E.g. the Broadcom's MIPS64-based SOCs have four general purpose DMA
    > engines onchip which can transfer data to/from the memory controller in
    > 32-byte chunks over the 256-bit internal bus. We have hardly any use for
    > these devices and certainly not for all four of them.

    On machines like the Ocelot, I keep intending to abuse one of the DMA
    engines for access to the DiskOnChip. Really must dig the Ocelot out of
    the dusty pile of toys... :) 

    -- 
dwmw2
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