"Zero-copy" question from a newbie

Found "zerocpy NFS" patches from: http://lwn.net/Articles/9356 for 2.5.33 kernel. Two questions:

1. Is there similar patches for 2.4.x kernel ?
2. Do I need special hardware (say NIC card) for this ?

Thanks,
Wendy

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