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.


you are of course correct, manuel...  but this really won't give
someone "maximum performance for data communications and latency."


the only way to really do that is stick it in the kernel... :(