Date: Mon, 17 Apr 95 23:03:37 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) To: babkin@hq.icb.chel.su (Serge A. Babkin) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: support for Xircom PCMCIA Ethernet adapters? Message-ID: <9504180503.AA11878@cs.weber.edu> In-Reply-To: <199504181332.IAA00285@hq.icb.chel.su> from "Serge A. Babkin" at Apr 18, 95 08:32:49 am
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> Server ODI (really NLM) drivers are known to be able to use polling. At > least I saw one card developed in the State Technical University of > Chelyabinsk that required very heavy polling (often with masked > interrupts), but they wrote an NLM for it. Most of the ones I know about are interrupt driven. > Probably most cards have more normal NLMs but a polling-based > ones are possible too and loading of such ones into kernel may be > dangerous. But more desirable than not supporting the card at all... Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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