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Subject: Generic DMA driver?
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I been thinking on creating a driver that allows one to launch dma transfers
with arbitrary channel. From user space so that one could use this in
combination with /dev/io to experiment when writting new drivers.

Is this a good idea..? ,or does it "re-invent" the wheel even?

Most drivers seem to consist of in() + out() + dma transfer..

           /Peter


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