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To: Steve Passe <smp@csn.net>
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@dk.tfs.com>
Subject: Re: HEADS UP: EISA cards. 
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Date: Wed, 16 Jul 1997 08:56:23 +0200
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>DESIGN DECISION:
>
>I am about to make a design decision that will forever-more make the use
>of EISA cards that use the EISA chipset DMA circuit impossible in the SMP
>kernel.  I posted a rather long email about this several days ago but got ZERO
>response.  So I can conclude that either:

About the only card this could affect is the AHA1742 (ahb%d driver).
Does anybody know if this card uses this feature ?

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