From 924220591dfbb11686c70df5d017175a85bd8c28 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Giorgos Keramidas Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 13:20:33 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Syntax and grammar fixes. PR: docs/34913 Submitted by: Ceri --- .../books/developers-handbook/dma/chapter.sgml | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/dma/chapter.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/dma/chapter.sgml index 72e2fed8c8..239e041b33 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/dma/chapter.sgml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/dma/chapter.sgml @@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ which indicates that the counter has reached zero and no more data will be transferred until the DMA controller is reprogrammed by the CPU. This event is also called the Terminal Count (TC). There is only - one EOP signal, and since only DMA channel can be active at any + one EOP signal, and since only one DMA channel can be active at any instant, the DMA channel that is currently active must be the DMA channel that just completed its task. @@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ It is important to understand that although the CPU always releases the bus to the DMA when the DMA makes the request, this - action is invisible to both applications and the operating systems, + action is invisible to both applications and the operating system, except for slight changes in the amount of time the processor takes to execute instructions when the DMA is active. Subsequently, the processor must poll the peripheral, poll the registers in the DMA @@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ A new implementation of the 8237, called the 82374, allows 16 - bits of page register to be specified, allows access to the entire + bits of page register to be specified and enables access to the entire 32 bit address space, without the use of bounce buffers. @@ -372,7 +372,7 @@ the peripheral requests transfers, they will be granted. It is up to the CPU to move new data into the fixed buffer ahead of where the DMA is about to transfer it when doing output - operations, and read new data out of the buffer behind where the + operations, and to read new data out of the buffer behind where the DMA is writing when doing input operations. This technique is frequently used on audio devices that have