Reply To: The Compiler

There are two different I/O questions: pin-twiddling I/O, and DMA. We expect all the twiddling to be memory-mapped, so (as with the rest of the Mill) there’s no need for privileged ops and all access control is via the existing turf-based protection mechanism.

As for DMA, the question is coherence and real-time constraints. We expect that a DMA device will appear to be just another core to the program model. That said, how inter-process communication (other than shared memory) works is still NYF.

You see, nothing up this sleeve… 🙂