Update I2C functions to use DMA #96
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I found this change extremely useful.
@ 100kHz I2C frequency, each run of the update function took approximately 100ms to complete. This put my simple cooperative scheduler out of wack. Moving over to using DMA, this was reduced down to ~10ms, broken into 8 parts, each to trigger the transfer of one RAM page.
This would, of course, be less of an issue if one is using an RTOS with pre-emption/time-slicing, but the load on the CPU would still be unnecessarily high.
Some caveats: