Subject: Re: VME Ethernet with NetBSD/sparc 1.1
To: Don Lewis <gdonl@gv.ssi1.com>
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@rocinante.digex.net>
List: port-sparc
Date: 02/24/1996 00:45:48
On February 23, you wrote:
> On Feb 23,  6:00pm, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> } Subject: Re: VME Ethernet with NetBSD/sparc 1.1
> } I'm not sure that it's possible to use the DVMA-savvy boards on the 
> } 4/100.  I think you're pretty much limited to serial boards, and the 
> } like.
> 
> That sounds right to me.  I seem to remember people wanting to put
> XY or XD controllers in 4/110's and running into this problem.

  This is correct...I've used VME framebuffers with 4/100 cpus but
that's about it...I believe the VME implementation can't handle
bus-mastering or something like that.

                            -Dave McGuire
                             Systems Engineer
                             Digital Express Group, Incorporated
                             mcguire@digex.net