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Re: ECB-DMA [message #8787 is a reply to message #8786] Wed, 07 July 2021 03:44 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
lynchaj is currently offline  lynchaj
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Hi Phillip

Another thought I meant to add but forgot was there are other IO peripherals which would benefit from a working DMA system. Somewhere earlier in this thread someone posted a partial ECB-SCSI-1 design with DMA support or something which could be adapted for DMA support. I looked at it a while ago and thought it needed some work but the point is once we have working DMA it will be worthwhile to revive and complete these designs for both PIO and DMA capabilities.

In addition, another project I'd like to see is a revival of the IDE from DiskIO board but this time modified for DMA support. I think that means a single IO port address so its probably a fairly significant modification but if we had IDE CF with DMA I think it would be dramatically better than PPIDE. Don't get me wrong, I think PPIDE is great but I don't think it can ever be anything but PIO only unless I am missing something. Please someone set me straight if I am wrong! However, I think a DMA capable CF-IDE would much better than current solutions.

Not a project we can do right now but something to consider down the road after the proof-of-concept are demonstrated to work successfully.

Thanks, Andrew Lynch
 
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