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Pointless Blathering

Peter Wieland's thoughts on Windows driver development, and occasional rants about computing in general.

February 2006 - Posts

What is DMA (Part 2) - DMA to a Driver
Yesterday i talked a little about "what DMA is". Today i want to talk a little bit about how devices use DMA) DMA to a Driver From the driver's point of view there are two aspects to DMA. The first is how you prepare your data for DMA transfers. The second Read More...
I'm playing with the skins
So if this looks different each time you check the web page, please bear with me. I'm having trouble finding a skin that i like. Read More...
What Is DMA (Part 1)
What Is DMA? DMA is a way for you to offload the work of transferring data between main memory and the device onto your device. This is in contrast to programmed I/O (PIO) where you have the processor copying data between main memory and the device. PIO Read More...
Who am I?
I've been trying to find time to start a blog for a while now. I figure the first question i'll be asked is "who are you and why should I care?". Like all things the answer to that isn't particularly easy. If you're not interested in driver development, Read More...