Printing Fi/Di values from simtrace host tool (PPS)

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Peter Stuge peter at stuge.se
Sat Feb 18 23:57:45 UTC 2012


Harald Welte wrote:
> > Basically the USB "framework" would need to be rewritten specifically
> > for zero copy operation, if the hardware actually allows that.
> 
> unfortunately the old USB peripheral in the sam7s does not have DMA, you
> have to use FIFO / MMIO to put the data onto USB.  It's really sad,
> almost all other peripherals can do DMA, but not the USB device
> controller.

I figured as much. Perhaps writing to the FIFO can happen already
when initially receiving the data from the serial port, ie. without
first storing to a buffer in RAM. But I think this will have some
non-trivial consequences for the code.


//Peter




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