At 09:04 PM 2/7/2001 +0000, Al B. Snell wrote:
>On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Brian Hechinger wrote:
>
> > actually i wasn't talking kernel vs userland, i was asking abour hardware
> > versus software.  are there any advantages to not having done ring 
> negotiation
> > in hardware(firmware?)
>
>Oh, OK... similar arguments wrt. ease of upgrading and experimenting
>apply, but that's about it, I guess.

As far as I'm concerned, no.  It's makes it harder to write drivers, boot rom
support, etc.

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