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Re: NetBSD and VMEbus RAM



The MM-6230 manual says "

On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 4:10 PM Jason Thorpe <thorpej%me.com@localhost> wrote:


> On Aug 13, 2020, at 12:36 PM, David Brownlee <abs%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
>
> - Is the VME memory board DMA capable - if not then the SCSI
> controller code could end up in a bad place...

Digging to my brain's archives here, but as far as I can remember, the VME bus signals are essentially identical to those of the 68000, and so memory placed out in VME space (at least on a 68k-based system) would necessarily behave the same as memory on the main memory bus, so...

-- thorpej



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Michael Thompson


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