Re: FAUmachine: Looking for a good documented DMA bus master capable PCI IDE Controller card

From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Date: Sat Feb 19 2005 - 06:50:54 EST


Hi,

On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 11:24:10 +0100, Thomas Glanzmann
<sithglan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
> we just implemented the Intel PIIX DMA Bus Master capable IDE Controller
> in FAUmachine. This improved the IO access to virtual IDE Devices using
> DMA as transport mechanism a lot.
>
> But with the current simulation it is only possible to access 4 devices
> via DMA.
>
> Because of that I am looking for a good documented PCI IDE Controller
> Card to provide DMA access to more than 4 devices with public available
> documentation. Any pointers?

In IDE you have 2 devices per port and usually 2 ports per PCI device.
There are some controller cards with 4 ports but they don't have public
available documentation etc. I really wonder what are you trying to
achieve and why just can't you use more than 1 "virtual" PIIX crontoller.

Bartlomiej
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