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From: Grant Coady <gcoady.lk@gmail.com>
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Subject: Query: DMA Engine support in make oldconfig
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2006 14:18:23 +1000
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Hi there,

make oldconfig from 2.6.17.11 to 2.6.18-rc5: This help text doesn't say 
what the right choice should be?  Unclear to me anyway, so I take the 
default, is that bad for an x86 32-bit box?
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* DMA Engine support
*
Support for DMA engines (DMA_ENGINE) [N/y/?] (NEW) ?

DMA engines offload copy operations from the CPU to dedicated
hardware, allowing the copies to happen asynchronously.
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Thanks,
Grant.