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Date:      Thu, 2 Dec 1999 08:33:57 -0700 (MST)
From:      "Ronald G. Minnich" <rminnich@lanl.gov>
To:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: memory-to-memory copy
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.20.9912020829580.5503-100000@mini.acl.lanl.gov>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.991201161752.5996A-100000@sol.cs.binghamton.edu>

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On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Zhihui Zhang wrote:

> I used to know that memory to memory copy is done by the DMA controller in
> the I/O bridge (Actually, this knowledge confues me because DMA controller

Now, that brings back memories :-)


check out the original dma chip design, ca. infinite years ago. Wow, did
freebsd ever use this for bcopy? Hard to see that it would pay ...

I know that early 8086 code did  use it though.

ron



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