nWAITing for Glamo
Andy Green
andy at openmoko.com
Wed Jul 16 15:39:53 CEST 2008
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Somebody in the thread at some point said:
|
| Is it possible to do transfers from a timer interrupt to get a
| pseudo-dma operation? E.g the std arm7 method of dma. Or likely that
| would be too slow.
That's Andrzej's idea, except he plans to "single step" real DMA from a
timer in order to spread the load out on the memory bus in time, if I
understood it.
It should come out ahead, but it seems we didn't really understand what
made simple DMA very slow, so it can be interesting whatever it does.
- -Andy
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