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Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 19:30:05 -0700 (PDT)
From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To: Jacques Vidrine <n@nectar.com>
cc: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>, Chrisy Luke <chrisy@flix.net>,
        Claude Tardif <intmktg@cam.org>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG,
        Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>
Subject: Re: Unknown abbreviations 
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I always thought of it as the Software Context of a device
as opposed to the state held in hardware.


julian

On Tue, 2 Jun 1998, Jacques Vidrine wrote:

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> I'll buy that.
> 
> Jacques Vidrine <n@nectar.com> 
> 
> On 2 June 1998 at 4:44, Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> wrote:
> > "Soft Config" is what I seem to remember being told, it may or may not be
> > accurate.   It's the software part of the device driver state, as opposed
> > to the hardware register state.
> 
> On 1 June 1998 at 12:50, Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com> wrote:
> > Guess: "software copy" (as opposed to information on the chip) ?
> 
> On 2 June 1998 at 9:05, Chrisy Luke <chrisy@flix.net> wrote:
> > This is what I realised once I'd got home and into bed.. ;-)
> > And I came up with "Soft Config" - it's that part of the config
> > you can change in software.
> 
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