On 5 Jul 1997, Matthias Scheler wrote:

> In article <Pine.NEB.3.93.970630163223.9152e-100000@gnostic.cynic.net>,
> 	Curt Sampson <cjs@portal.ca> writes:
> > at this time the 3c905 uses polled I/O rather than DMA.
> 
> That's a software restriction not a hardware restriction?

Yes. That's because nobody's ever gotten around to doing DMA for
that driver.  The issues regarding that are a bit complex, actually.

cjs

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