On Tue, 06 Oct 1998 20:31:04 -0400 
 "Michael C. Richardson" <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca> wrote:

 >   Two things:
 > 	1. I may be in a position to change this as paid work.
 > 	2. Are there other chipsets that do the DMA to mbufs in a 
 > 	MI compatible way?

Yes, there are... BUT... in the LANCE case, you have to handle BOTH:

	(a) DMA directly to mbufs

	(b) DMA into either on-board (e.g. DEPCA, TURBOchannel, etc.) or
	    reserved memory (e.g. NE2100, PCnet-ISA, IOASIC) and then
	    copy into mbufs.

"Fun fun!"

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