[Doubt] Can a PCI device communicate with another PCI or other

[Steve Watt]

In <e6a0706a0810161130i6a3820fexf3afdbf28f81bd31 at mail.gmail.com> mboxindia at gmail.com wrote:
>I think a PCI device can communicate with another PCI device directly
>without the intervention of the CPU.

Absolutely.  Happens a fair amount in embedded networking systems (among
others).

The host is responsible for enumeration and resource assignment, but once
that's complete, any device on the bus can see all others.  Whether that's
useful depends rather heavily on the devices on the bus, obviously.

TANSTAAFL applies, though, in that multiple initiators must be careful not
to step on each others' accesses.

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