Re: Firewire/USB Card for Qube 2
Izumi Tsutsui <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.netbsd.ports.cobalt |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
[email protected] wrote: > My guess would be also from performance point of view > with no DMA the USB will not take up to the desired > speeds, but also the CPU will be screwed, because on > large transfers it has to work hard, but after all it > is just a MIPS old workhorse. All ehci/uhci/ohci use DMA properly, but they don't handle cache invalidate/writeback on their DMA ops, which is required by most MIPS based machines but not necessary for x86 PCs. --- Izumi Tsutsui