Re: Firewire/USB Card for Qube 2

Izumi Tsutsui <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.cobalt
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.
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Izumi Tsutsui
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