From owner-freebsd-multimedia Mon May 13 00:39:49 1996 Return-Path: owner-multimedia Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA26672 for multimedia-outgoing; Mon, 13 May 1996 00:39:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA26636 Mon, 13 May 1996 00:39:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id RAA18505; Mon, 13 May 1996 17:17:11 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199605130747.RAA18505@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: snd in -current, vmix, misc To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty Jr.) Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 17:17:09 +0930 (CST) Cc: smpatel@umiacs.umd.edu, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199605130320.UAA10431@rah.star-gate.com> from "Amancio Hasty Jr." at May 12, 96 08:20:29 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Amancio Hasty Jr. stands accused of saying: > > Oh, I can call isa_dmadone however I think is a waste unless we intent > to shared dma channels and even then it makes no sense. I wonder > what the engineer who decided that we shall call isa_dmadone > after we get a dma interrupt after a call to isa_dmastart had in mind?? DMA hardware independance. One-stop-shop handling of DMA hardware quirks etc. > Amancio -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[