On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 02:17:12AM -0800, Tarachand Verma wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> We are looking for an enthernet device driver (fast or
> giga ethernet on
> PCI bus) which can run on the NetBSD/Intel-PC almost
> independent of the
> kernel and the OS in general.  The reason for that is
> to try achieve
> maximum performance for data communications and
> latency. 

Such a driver can't be indepedant from the kernel, because only the
kernel has access to I/O port and buffers.
Now it's possible to write a simple kernel drivers wich just allows a
user process to mmap the buffers, and gives the I/O ports.
Then the user process could drive the device by itself.


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