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- From: mlelstv@serpens.rhein.de (Michael van Elst)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Picasso and graphic garbage
- Date: 8 Mar 1996 10:55:44 +0100
- Organization: dis-
- Message-ID: <4hp070$c9d@serpens.rhein.de>
- References: <4gsnvu$s23@nyheter.chalmers.se> <54588Ke@babylon.pfm-mainz.de> <4hnndj$h1o@daffy.anetsrvcs.uwrf.edu>
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- jn42@ruby-14.UUCP writes:
-
- >Mask -
- > "The default value of 0xFFFFFFFE allows DMA transfers within the
- > extended 16MB address range offered by GVP Series II and G-Force
- > Accelerators. If your system cannot perform DMA access to
- > Extended RAM use the value 0x00FFFFFE, instead"
-
- > Sounds like disabling DMA to me.
-
- It still does DMA ... into a filesystem buffer (probably in chip memory).
- Then the buffer is copied to the final destination. So, you still use
- DMA but you lose all its advantages.
-
- Regards,
- --
- Michael van Elst
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