Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 13:45:12 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel EtherExpress 16 code? Message-ID: <200101102145.f0ALjCg00858@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 10 Jan 2001 14:00:02 MST." <4.3.2.7.2.20010110135309.0497e990@localhost>
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> >* Intel EtherExpress ISA (not recommended due to driver instability)
>
> These cards use a National Semiconductor chip that was used in a few
Actually, no, they don't; the above refers to the 10Mbps cards which use
the i82586.
> Cisco routers as well. It has a very clean interface, and I'd begun
> to adapt the ed driver to it. (One thing that's nice about it is that
> you can use REP INSW and REP OUTSW instructions on x86 to transfer
> data with no wait states, giving you the maximum transfer rate that's
> possible on an ISA bus.)
... except that I/O cycles on the ISA bus are twice as expensive as
memory cycles, so rep movw is actually better.
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