Re: PCI Bursting with PIO

[H. Peter Anvin]

Dan Gora wrote:
> >  Put a DMA controller on it ;)
>
> Ugh.. sadly that's what's coming.  I really don't get why the
> northbridge cannot burst however.

Because the early Intel northbridges didn't, so noone else bothered 
either, since everyone designed their hardware to not require that 
capability.

	-hpa
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