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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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