RE: Linux and real device drivers

Stephen Frost (sfrost@ns.snowman.net)
Wed, 22 Sep 1999 02:41:23 -0400 (EDT)


On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Bret Indrelee wrote:

> PCI bus normally runs at 33 MHz. It takes at least two clock cycles to do a

Just to butt in, this certainly is not always going to be the case.
Indeed, there are a number of folks who are working at running at higher PCI
bus speeds. You're making a not-so-small assumption that the processer will
always greatly out-speed the device it's talking to...

Stephen

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