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Posted by James Carroll on 03-Nov-2003 21:15 GMT | In reply to Comment 64 (Ben Hermans/Hyperion): @Ben Hermans
>This "so called "problem is the direct result of the Articia S's ability to >handle memory access by the CPU and PCI bus.
>This behavior reduces latency but is unknown in the Wintel world which is why >the Linux drivers don't cater for it.
>MAI has been reworking the Linux drivers to cope with this and Hyperion has >been aware of this feature for quite some time and has taken it into account >when doing DMA capable drivers for the AmigaOne hardware.
Ben, I dont know much about this DMA bug situation (regarding the fixes, etc), because my A1 only just arrived yesterday. Does the current most up to date linux kernal for A1 fix or at least go a long way towards fixing the problems mentioned here? |
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