From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 0/3] ioat: DMA engine support
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 17:56:45 -0500
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Alan Cox wrote:
>>Additionally, current IOAT is memory->memory.  I would love to be able 
>>to convince Intel to add transforms and checksums, 
> 
> 
> Not just transforms but also masks and maybe even merges and textures
> would be rather handy 8)


Ah yes:  I totally forgot to mention XOR.

Software RAID would love that.

	Jeff