Meanings
adjectiveprefetchable (not comparable)
- not comparableCapable of being prefetched.
When prefetchable memory is not supported by the PCI/PCI bridge, the register is reserved, read-only, and must return a value of zero when read.
2005, Edward Solari, George Willse, PCI and PCI-X Hardware and Software: Architecture and Design
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