[SGVLUG] interesting, DMA does work on many CF cards

[matti]

funny how it's the open source projects
which reveal these.. everyone else seems
to be too busy keeping secrets.

see the section on CF cards and DMA 

best
matti

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Foreword: This paper describes a small, Utah-based company overcoming several hardware and software challenges to create an advanced Linux-based camera. Based on an 200MHz Axis ETRAX FS and an FPGA, Elphel's modular 353 camera, combined with several new expansion modules, can now capture geo-tagged video to CompactFlash or 1.8-inch drives.

The article was written by Andrey Filippov, a Russian physicist who emigrated to the US in 1995, and founded Elphel six years later. This is Filippov's seventh whitepaper for LinuxDevices -- the others are listed at the end. 
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http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT5102023409.html