Re: [Doubt] Can a PCI device communicate with another PCI or other

2008-10-16 Thread Steve Watt
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I think a PCI device can communicate with another PCI device directly >without the intervention of the CPU. Absolutely. Happens a fair amount in embedded networking systems (among others). The host is responsible for enumeration and resource assig

Re: [Doubt] Can a PCI device communicate with another PCI or other device?

2008-10-16 Thread Srinivas
I think a PCI device can communicate with another PCI device directly without the intervention of the CPU. Excerpt from "PCI Express System Architecture" ... PCI Transaction Model - Peer-to-Peer A Peer-to-peer transaction shown as Transaction 3 in Figure 1-5 on page 20 is the direct transfer of d

Re: [Doubt] Can a PCI device communicate with another PCI or other device?

2008-10-14 Thread Pegasus Mc Cleaft
On Tuesday 14 October 2008 19:32:47 Srinivas wrote: > Hello, > > I have a small doubt. > > Suppose I have a PCI card with a general purpose CPU on it. Could it be > able to communicate with another PCI device or ISA device(lets say IDE hard > disk)? Hi Srinivas, Others may have a differe

[Doubt] Can a PCI device communicate with another PCI or other device?

2008-10-14 Thread Srinivas
Hello, I have a small doubt. Suppose I have a PCI card with a general purpose CPU on it. Could it be able to communicate with another PCI device or ISA device(lets say IDE hard disk)? Thanks, Srinivas ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http:/