> A 33MHz, 32-bit Revision 2.2-compliant PCI bus gives you 132 MB/second.
> That's the spec. There is no way to slow it down except by a disconnect.
Only when streaming. One reason DMA is used is that you always want to push
data onto a PCI bus. The CPU then doesnt have to stall on a PCI read access.
Writes are easy as they can be posted and merged
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