On Fri, 21 Jun 1996 13:51:05 -0500 
 Chuck Cranor <chuck@dworkin.wustl.edu> wrote:

 > We actually ported this driver to NetBSD 1.1_ALPHA back around Feb 9th.
 > It needs contigmalloc() in vm/vm_page.c in order to work ... we never
 > resolved how to do this in NetBSD so the driver never made it in the tree.
 > I can send diff's to anyone who is interested in re-porting it to -current.

Yah, we need to figure out an architecture for allocating contiguous 
space ... As Chris pointed out to Chuck and I some time ago, the Alpha 
can do the scatter-gather in hardware, and thus a VM hack isn't 
necessary.

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