DMA

[Matthew East]

On Tue, 2006-05-23 at 23:14 +1000, Alexander Jacob Tsykin wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 May 2006 19:20, Robert Spanjaard wrote:
> > > No matter how much icing
> > > and marzipan you stick around a cake, you still need to know what's
> > > inside it.
> >
> > Really? I rarely (if ever) read the ingredients-part before cutting/eating
> > a cake. There's no need to know what's inside for most people.
> 
> good point. But certainly the point remains that DMA would need to be 
> explained tot he non-technical user (which is most)

No. As Scott said: DMA is activated by default for those people whose
hardware can take advantage of it, and deactivated by default for those
which can't.

No user needs to know what DMA is. In fact, it may be counterproductive,
when people whose hardware doesn't support it try to activate it.

Matt
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