Re: A scrub daemon (prezeroing)

[David Woodhouse]

On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 21:00 +0000, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
>  E.g. the Broadcom's MIPS64-based SOCs have four general purpose DMA 
> engines onchip which can transfer data to/from the memory controller in 
> 32-byte chunks over the 256-bit internal bus.  We have hardly any use for 
> these devices and certainly not for all four of them.

On machines like the Ocelot, I keep intending to abuse one of the DMA
engines for access to the DiskOnChip. Really must dig the Ocelot out of
the dusty pile of toys... :)

-- 
dwmw2


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