Subject: Re: Quadra AV DMA?
To: Ken Nakata <kenn@physics.rutgers.edu>
From: Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 02/12/1998 14:57:34
At 2:27 PM -0800 2/12/98, Ken Nakata wrote:
>Hi,
>
>When I stopped by at Allen's house last weekend, he told me that Dave
>(Huang?) was working on esp driver that uses DMA on Q840AV.
>
>As I'm now an 840AV owner as well, I'm very interested in how things
>are coming out.  Any word on it yet?
>
>Also, I'd like to get my hands on whatever technical documentation
>available on the custom chips on board, i.e. CIVIC, Endeavor, VDC,
>Sebastian, etc.  It would be really cool to be able to run X server on
>this machine in 16-bit or 24-bit color depth.

Obviously Dave is the source of information, but I can tell you that the
mace Ethernet driver does DMA on the 840 so you can look at it for some
hints.

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