Direct Memmory Access

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Re: Direct Memmory Access

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gerryg400 wrote:No, you can supply a list of physaddr/length pairs and the controller takes care of scatter/gathering the pieces.
Thanks for explaining that - I'd been wondering about it for some time, so that completely gets rid of the need of a massive transfer buffer for loading/saving massive files.
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