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Coding > memcpy() vs. DMA

#111624 - tepples - Fri Dec 08, 2006 2:31 pm

In this post, gmiller wrote:
Also your copy of data into OAM is not using DMA and it should.

For a 1024 byte aligned copy, is DMA much better than a memcpy() that uses an LDMIA/STMIA loop?
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Last edited by tepples on Fri Dec 08, 2006 10:30 pm; edited 2 times in total

#111686 - poslundc - Sat Dec 09, 2006 12:04 am

Whoops, look like I split this after it had already been split by tepples... and since it doesn't look as though I can undo it, please follow this thread here.

Dan.