From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: haskellboy@ig.com.br
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [question]- DMA
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 17:18:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041028001843.GA2115@taniwha.stupidest.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041027_233143_086641.haskellboy@ig.com.br>
On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 08:31:43PM -0300, haskellboy@ig.com.br wrote:
> can DMA copy from RAM to hard disk?
yes
> if yes, the kernel uses DMA to copy from disk to disk?
no, the disk hardware that (almost all) linux hardware uses doesn't
allow this easily
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-28 0:26 UTC|newest]
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2004-10-27 23:31 haskellboy
2004-10-28 0:18 ` Chris Wedgwood [this message]
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