Re: RFC: Adding no-BIOS support to Linux?

[Alan Cox]

> This is all "if I recall correctly", I had the same idea for something like
> that with an Elan a while ago... It is a good chip... Though I am unsure how
> are you going to get eepro100 working in view of Elan's differences in DMA and
> busmastering (or lack of thereof). 

Nod. Most people appear to use shared memory devices like the Crystal CS89xx
series devices to avoid DMA issues on small embedded boards - that or the
good old ne2000 clone