From: kyriazis@jibe.engr.sgi.com (George Kyriazis)
To: tsbogend@alpha.franken.de (Thomas Bogendoerfer)
Cc: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com
Subject: Re: VINO
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 16:59:06 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199809242359.QAA76554@jibe.engr.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19980924011207.09418@alpha.franken.de> from Thomas Bogendoerfer at "Sep 24, 98 01:12:07 am"
> Is it possible to do VINO DMA directly to the newport ?
>
As far as I know, you have to do it through memory.
To elaborate: I believe you can program the DMA controller to copy
from VINO to the REX3 (read: from a fixed address to a fixed address),
but I doubt the data formats are compatible. Ie, you'll be dumping
garbage to the REX3 registers.
--george
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From: kyriazis@jibe.engr.sgi.com (George Kyriazis)
To: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Cc: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com
Subject: Re: VINO
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 16:59:06 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <199809242359.QAA76554@jibe.engr.sgi.com> (raw)
Message-ID: <19980924235906.7eknO7NMjy5-7VPPaKRxpjEi2a3dw6p1WWnIDgtuXw8@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19980924011207.09418@alpha.franken.de> from Thomas Bogendoerfer at "Sep 24, 98 01:12:07 am"
> Is it possible to do VINO DMA directly to the newport ?
>
As far as I know, you have to do it through memory.
To elaborate: I believe you can program the DMA controller to copy
from VINO to the REX3 (read: from a fixed address to a fixed address),
but I doubt the data formats are compatible. Ie, you'll be dumping
garbage to the REX3 registers.
--george
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George Kyriazis | Silicon Graphics, Inc., 8U-590 | kyriazis@sgi.com
| 2011 N. Shoreline Blvd. | 650-933-2828
| Mt. View, CA 94043 |
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-09-25 0:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-09-23 23:12 VINO Thomas Bogendoerfer
1998-09-24 16:31 ` VINO Alex deVries
1998-09-24 23:59 ` George Kyriazis [this message]
1998-09-24 23:59 ` VINO George Kyriazis
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-06-08 12:54 VINO Jorik Jonker
2004-06-08 22:06 ` VINO Ladislav Michl
2004-06-09 12:20 ` VINO Jorik Jonker
2004-06-29 13:42 ` VINO Ladislav Michl
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