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From: Ingo Oeser <ingo.oeser@informatik.tu-chemnitz.de>
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On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 10:19:21AM -0700, Alan Shih wrote:
> So would main processor still need a copy of the data for re-transmission?
> Won't that defeat the purpose?

No, since I didn't state that a retransmission is done along the
pipe, because you cannot go back in a pipeline.

A retransmission can be done at the end of the pipe, where this
can also be done in hardware.

Regards

Ingo Oeser