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Offline freqmax

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Re: A2091 and Zorro-II DMA memory
« on: February 18, 2013, 01:35:57 AM »
It's called "Bounce buffer" in Linux / FreeBSD. Used to deal with the 16 MB limit of Intel 8237,  and the 4 GB limit of PCI etc. I guess 64-bit systems have a bit left before they need this technique ;)
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Re: A2091 and Zorro-II DMA memory
« Reply #1 on: February 18, 2013, 07:36:35 AM »
"4G should be enough for anybody" ? :P

16 777 216 TByte enough? ;)
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