[Haskell-cafe] Linux device drivers

[Keean Schupke]

I thought the BusMaster interface was pretty uniform, unlike the earlier 
DMA interfaces which varied from chipset to chipset.

    Keean.

Lennart Augustsson wrote:

> But there are plenty of minor variations on how to program
> and initiate DMA for different devices.
>
>     -- Lennart
>
> Keean Schupke wrote:
>
>> Actually with PCI chipsets, implementing a generic BusMaster DMA driver
>> is not too hard, assuming you already have interrupts handled (and 
>> you don't want 64bit DMA support)... You just load the parameters for 
>> the disk read into the PCI registers, and wait for the completed 
>> interrupt. I wrote a diver in assembly language for my own OS project 
>> a few years ago.
>>
>>    Keean.
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