Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA13716; Sat, 24 Feb 96 19:02:27 EST Received: from pain.lcs.mit.edu by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA20283; Sat, 24 Feb 96 19:01:08 EST Received: (from daemon@localhost) by pain.lcs.mit.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id QAA08969; Sat, 24 Feb 1996 16:59:51 -0500 Received: from pci.on.ca by pain.lcs.mit.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id QAA08827 for ; Sat, 24 Feb 1996 16:42:56 -0500 Received: by pci.on.ca (/\==/\ Smail3.1.28.1 #28.1) id ; Sat, 24 Feb 96 16:47 EST Received: (from dgilbert@localhost) by repeat.pci.on.ca (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA25506; Sat, 24 Feb 1996 16:37:32 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 16:37:32 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199602242137.QAA25506@repeat.pci.on.ca> From: David Gilbert To: gdonl@gv.ssi1.com (Don Lewis) Cc: Jason Thorpe , Mike Frisch , NetBSD/sparc Subject: Re: VME Ethernet with NetBSD/sparc 1.1 In-Reply-To: <199602240426.UAA24117@salsa.gv.ssi1.com> References: <199602240426.UAA24117@salsa.gv.ssi1.com> Sender: owner-port-sparc@NetBSD.ORG Precedence: list X-Loop: port-sparc@NetBSD.ORG >>>>> "Don" == Don Lewis 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. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- |David Gilbert, PCI, Richmond Hill, Ontario. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dgilbert@jaywon.pci.on.ca | equal if and only if they | |http://www.pci.on.ca/~dgilbert | are precisely opposite. | ---------------------------------------------------------GLO----------------