At 12:22 PM 8/23/2000 -0700, Jason R Thorpe wrote:

>  > The XMI on the VAX6000 (wich NetBSD are about to support) and the 7000 is
>  > wery differnet what I know, in terms of the CPU communacting with the BUS.
>
>Yes, but the way NetBSD writes bus drivers, it may be very easy to
>write the glue to allow the VAX XMI drivers to work (they're written
>to be platform-independent).

Except many XMI devices know how to read the VAX page table and can do VA->PA
translations themselves.  But use of that feature can usually be optional.
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