On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 12:23:06PM +1100, matthew green wrote:

 >    On-board LANCE is capable of doing smarter thing than PMAD-A TC option
 >    card.  NetBSD/pmax treats them almost equally, however.

The on-board LANCE could, in theory, DMA directly into mbufs.  However,
the IOASIC DMA isn't really smart enough to be able to do that effectively.

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