Per Fogelstrom wrote:
> 
> > 
> > would have thought it would be easy enough for the i386 port to reserve a block
> > of physical memory at boot time which is then used for a DMA bounce buffer. The
> > only things which would need changing this way are specific to the port or
> > drivers. In other words it isn't a job for the core, but for the i386 port
> > maintainer. Am I missing something?
> > 
> No. This is a way to solve it once and for ever regarding the adaptec board.
> Thus only those with aha1542 boards and ram >16Mb would "suffer" but NetBSD
> would be usable for many matching this config.
> 
Could that be written to support bustmastering LAN NICs too? eg. ne2100...

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