[9fans] Re: etherelnk3.c

[Eric Dorman eld@jewel.ucsd.edu]

> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
> Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 21:41:15 -0500
> From: "jim mckie" <jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com>
> Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: etherelnk3.c
> 
> 	>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

Yep; I did it with mine before it died due to an internal defect ( :< ).

Regards,

eric