Subject: Re: LANCE (Am7990) DMA
To: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: tech-net
Date: 10/05/1998 21:26:06
On Mon, 05 Oct 1998 21:41:21 -0700 
 Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com> wrote:

 > So on the VAX 4000/60 where it has a scatter/gather map which can
 > allow it to address all of memory (or on the VS2000 which only
 > has 14MB of memory), the current driver forces an extra data copy 
 > where none is needed.  That's really painful on VAXes which have
 > already very slow memory bandwidth.  Maybe that means I really
 > can't the MI le driver.  Ugh.

The VAX port _already_ uses it's own "ln" driver...

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