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From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com>
To: Alfred Perlstein <perlsta@fang.cs.sunyit.edu>
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On Tue, 6 May 1997, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> is there a way for me to get my EtherEZ SMC 8416 to work under freeBSD
> without mapping a linear frame out of memory, windows and dos seem to be
> able to do it through programmed I/O.
> 
> thank you
> Alfred Perlstein
> perlsta@cs.sunyit.edu

  Well, considering the huge performance benefit you get from using memory
mapped io, I don't think anyone has ever thought about doing this.

Tom