From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 20 08:27:53 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id IAA00392 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 20 Apr 1995 08:27:53 -0700 Received: from brasil.moneng.mei.com (brasil.moneng.mei.com [151.186.20.4]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id IAA00386 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 1995 08:27:52 -0700 Received: by brasil.moneng.mei.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA10609; Thu, 20 Apr 95 10:23:52 CDT From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <9504201523.AA10609@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: Digiboard driver ? To: dufault@hda.com (Peter Dufault) Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1995 10:23:52 -0500 (CDT) Cc: julian@ref.tfs.com, babkin@hq.icb.chel.su, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199504201045.GAA09617@hda.com> from "Peter Dufault" at Apr 20, 95 06:45:05 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 924 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > This would have to be REAL RECENTLY, like within the last two weeks. > Are you sure about this, Julian? > > This makes 7 requests for Digi support in about 6 weeks. Make that 8. In particular, if I can offload some of the interrupt loads that I typically deal with onto smart cards, I could stop burning horsepower on trivial applications (386DX/40's as PPP routers, bah!) Not that I *really* mind, but it seems to me like 16[45]50 serial ports are in the same class of peripheral as IDE: undesirable. :-) If somebody can write a driver that actually exploits the abilities of the Digi intelligent hardware to offload some of the interrupts and processing onto the controller, they have _my_ vote! ;-) ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847