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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 1998
Filed:
May. 22, 1997
Bruce Leroy Beukema, Hayfield, MN (US);
Gary Scott Delp, Rochester, MN (US);
Larry Wayne Loen, Rochester, MN (US);
Daniel Frank Moertl, Rochester, MN (US);
Michael R Trombley, Rochester, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A mixed-endian computer system enhanced to manage I/O DMA without a software DMA performance penalty. A mixed-endian computer system can change endian mode on a task by task basis if necessary. The mixed-endian system, as enhanced, performs one of two well-defined DMA operations based on control bits either in the DMA control register or in a bit vector associated with each page of processor storage. This invention also describes means for treating I/O registers as if they were of the endian of the executing processor, instead of the more typical need to have the register operate in a particular endian.