Excerpts from mail: 25-Oct-96 Re: ethernet card by Bruce [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I looked at the driver code and verified that it is doing programmed I/O. > So, while it is perhaps not significant for some systems, the thing is > using the CPU to wait for ISA bus transfers, and the CPU is stuck at interrupt > > priority and not running your program while this is happening. No doubt it goe > s > by too fast to notice. You'd probably have to run a benchmark to tell the > difference. > > Bruce
I'm just wondering, my SMC EtherEZ has a memory mapped mode, would this be better? Does Linux support it? Raf
