[HECnet] PDXVAX - 40MB Memory - VAXstation 4000/VLC?

Brian Hechinger wonko at 4amlunch.net
Mon Oct 19 17:59:54 PDT 2009


On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 12:31:41PM -0400, John Wilson wrote:

its behalf instead of assuming the CPU card is The Decider.   I'm trying to
picture where per-CPU peripherals go in that case so the I/O page is still
private but DMA isn't ... ow my head!

If you are talking multiple CPUs on a single QBus is there much benefit to
assigning peripherals to CPUs other than CPU0?   That wouldn't disallow you
to do DMA from another CPU to that peripherals I wouldn't think.

-brian
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