From: jim mckie jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
Subject: [9fans] Re: etherelnk3.c
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 21:41:15 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19971231024115.e2dtoWx7ewSQzr2lFboYmO2ecutzh1rY-S1n4Pdbt1g@z> (raw)
>Of course the current support in the fs is for pretty slow
>scsi controllers, from what I've seen. One could stick a
>PCI controller that looks like an AHA1542 in there but the
>driver wouldn't utilize 32-bit addressing, forcing the use of
>bounce buffers... hmm, didn't some of the VLB cards have
>a larger address space?
this has been gone over before on the list. given the buslogic eisa controller
driver in the fs kernel (which is no slouch), it's trivial to make a buslogic pci
controller work in 32-bit mode; that's what we use.
--jim
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1997-12-31 2:41 jim [this message]
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1997-12-30 19:05 Eric
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