Subject: Re: VME Ethernet with NetBSD/sparc 1.1
To: Don Lewis <gdonl@gv.ssi1.com>
From: David Gilbert <dgilbert@jaywon.pci.on.ca>
List: port-sparc
Date: 02/24/1996 16:37:32
>>>>> "Don" == Don Lewis <gdonl@gv.ssi1.com> writes:

Don> On Feb 23, 6:00pm, Jason Thorpe wrote: } Subject: Re: VME
Don> Ethernet with NetBSD/sparc 1.1 } I'm not sure that it's possible
Don> to use the DVMA-savvy boards on the } 4/100.  I think you're
Don> pretty much limited to serial boards, and the } like.

Don> That sounds right to me.  I seem to remember people wanting to
Don> put XY or XD controllers in 4/110's and running into this
Don> problem.

	Would his Sun4/110 CPU be able to DMA if it were put in a 12
slot 3/260 chassy?  I suppose a polled IO ethernet would stink.

Dave.

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