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DMA from SCSI controller to PCI frame buffer memory.

DISCUSSION Douglas Gilbert 1 participant 1 message Dec 15, 2002

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Quoted 6 lines · Jason

Any recommendations on where to start hacking? Would it be a good idea to add O_DIRECT to a mmaped PCI space? The kernel should not be doing any buffering whatsoever, as we will be coming close to filling the pci bus up with transfers from direct disk->fb already. (We are already doing buffering on the FB card as well)

Jason,
Here is a less general solution that I worked on some time ago involving the scsi generic driver.
http://www.torque.net/sg/mem2disk.html

It worked ok for one application in the early 2.4 series.

Doug Gilbert