Re: NatSemi DP83820 gigE driver kit for 4.2 and 4.3

[Bsdguru]

In a message dated 07/16/2001 1:54:25 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

> > Maybe at some point he'll "get" that the boundry issue is a pci bus-
> mastering
>  > spec issue and not a controller design flaw, as he seems to harp on this 
> in
>  > just about every driver?
>  
>  That's incorrect, there no nothing limiting a PCI device for doing
>  busmastering on a byte boundary.... The reason why not that many devices
>  support it, especially on the receive side, is that the circuit gets
>  more complicated.
>  

the fact that you can "fudge" it in circuitry doesnt change the way that 
transfers work. 

B

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