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From: jim mckie jmk@pla...
Subject: [9fans] Re: etherelnk3.c
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 21:41:15 -0500

	>Of course the current support in the fs is for pretty slow
	>scsi controllers, from what I've seen.  One could stick a 
	>PCI controller that looks like an AHA1542 in there but the 
	>driver wouldn't utilize 32-bit addressing, forcing the use of
	>bounce buffers...  hmm, didn't some of the VLB cards have 
	>a larger address space?

this has been gone over before on the list. given the buslogic eisa controller
driver in the fs kernel (which is no slouch), it's trivial to make a buslogic pci
controller work in 32-bit mode; that's what we use.

--jim