[Forum] AmigaOne's *software* DMA | ANN.lu |
Posted on 05-Jul-2004 01:07 GMT by atmel | 24 comments View flat View list |
I would like to know why the AmigaOne has a software-based DMA instead of having a northbridge that has hardware DMA built-in?
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Posted by Don Cox on 06-Jul-2004 07:27 GMT | In reply to Comment 22 (Peter Gordon): "This technique could be used to make the ARM some kind of pseudo DMA controller if it wasn't the main processor in the system, IE the main processor tells the "DMA" ARM to start copying a file, and sets up a timer to interrupt it regularily from whatever other tasks it has to copy data around."
In other words, use an ARM as a bridge chip. One would expect chips specifically designed as Northbridge or Southbridge chips to work better. |
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