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Peter Wieland's thoughts on Windows driver development, and occasional rants about computing in general.

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GetScatterGatherList will coallesce contiguous SG list entries
GregH asked me an interesting question at WinHEC today - one for which I didn't immediately know the answer. He was wondering whether the new DMA DDIs (Get|PutScatterGatherList) would return a single SG entry for each page, or whether they would coallesce Read More...
What is DMA (Part 9): I/O MMUs and why you'll wish you'd used the DMA DDI in 3 or 4 years
Perhaps you've read through all of my posts about DMA and still think that using the DMA DDIs is optional. After all you've built a 64-bit card, and you're not using DAC so you don't have to worry about busses being downgraded on you (or maybe you don't Read More...
What is DMA (Part 8) - BuildScatterGatherList
Since i'm on vacation next week, i thought i'd tackle something light this week. Last time i talked about GetScatterGatherList and PutScatterGatherList and how much better they are than the older method of doing DMA. But as much as I like these two functions, Read More...
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