> The gr peach board only has the internal 10MB SRAM so everything should be > coming from there. Damn. There goes that easy excuse of why it's slow. > The kernel is running from the memory mapped SPI flash however. I'm not sure > if that would make a difference. No, that should not be the issue because the DMA moving bytes to the RSPI across the internal busses should not need the CPU. Still, I guess the good thing about using DMA is that you can transfer out (or in) lots of data and don't have to worry about lots of interrupts. Chris