From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 17 22:10:42 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id WAA14583 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 17 Apr 1995 22:10:42 -0700 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id WAA14577 for ; Mon, 17 Apr 1995 22:10:41 -0700 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA11878; Mon, 17 Apr 95 23:03:38 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9504180503.AA11878@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: support for Xircom PCMCIA Ethernet adapters? To: babkin@hq.icb.chel.su (Serge A. Babkin) Date: Mon, 17 Apr 95 23:03:37 MDT Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199504181332.IAA00285@hq.icb.chel.su> from "Serge A. Babkin" at Apr 18, 95 08:32:49 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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.