IOCOMMON/README - Generic portion of VCOM driver.
$Revision: 1.1 $

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* GENERAL INFORMATION *
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In this directory are the files which make up the generic
portion of the VCOM Communications driver.

pnbAlloc.c - Contains the Pooled Netowrk Buffer management routines.
    These routines are used by systems which require that all network
    buffers reside on the VCOM server boards.  System hardware design
    may prevent the VCOM board from accessing system memory as bus
    masters; allocating the buffers on the VCOM server board allows
    the server access to the data since it now resides locally on its
    own memroy.

    This file may be missing and with the funtionality provided not
    begin required by your system.

sbeRelease.c - Identifies the SBE release.  A string will be imbedded
    into the driver and will track the release.  The imbedded string
    may be displayed using the following:
 
        strings <filename> | grep \$Rel

shmque.c - This file contains the shared memory interface routines.
    The shared memory interface is based on a symmetrical queuing
    strategy and contains delicate timing considerations.  DO NOT
    CHANGE THE INFORMATION IN THIS FILE, or the bus interface
    may not operate reliably.

vcom.c - This is the hardware independent portion of the vcom driver.
    It is a streams driver which handles all data and information to
    and from the vcom board.

vcom_std.c - This file contains initialization routines and system
    specific declarations for customized hardware platforms.
    This file may be missing, in which case your specific
    customized portion will reside in the "io" directory.

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