[NBLUG/talk] Bare metal question
Mitch Patenaude
mrp at sonic.net
Sun May 25 11:20:15 PDT 2003
On Sunday, May 25, 2003, at 11:05 US/Pacific, ME wrote:
> I can't think of anything that can be stored at an address in RAM that
> can't be stored in a register. (Note, "an address" being the same
> bit-size/width of the largest register.)
I will make this one nitpicky distinction. DMA devices can read
from/write to memory, but cannot access registers. So what cannot be
stored in registers is DMA I/O data.
-- Mitch
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