Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 18:57:05 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.net> To: Olivier Nicole <Olivier.Nicole@cs.ait.ac.th> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CF Ethernet for FreeBSD? Message-ID: <200912010157.SAA01359@lariat.net> In-Reply-To: <200912010013.nB10DSM6096812@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> References: <200911301930.MAA26709@lariat.net> <200912010013.nB10DSM6096812@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>
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At 05:13 PM 11/30/2009, Olivier Nicole wrote: >Not to mentione FreeBSD drivers, but only finding an Ethernet >interface that plugs into a CF sockets seems very chalenging: you >don't really send/receive the same information to memory and to >network interface; CF can address GB of data, while the network card >has a few KB at best; etc. CF sockets usually can act as sockets for ATA/IDE compatible disk drives as well as for PCMCIA-like peripheral cards. Also, there are some Ethernet interface chips that are designed to be memory-mapped. See, for example, the one by ASIX, which is often used in embedded systems because it can interface with pretty much any CPU. --Brett Glass
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