RE: For fun, intel e100 port.

[Soohoon Lee <soohoon lee api-networks com>]

It works for 2.2.x and because the original version works for 2.4.x
I believe it'll work for 2.4.x too. 
But there could be some problem with mb() though.

Soohoon.

-----Original Message-----
From: Craig Tierney [mailto:ctierney@hpti.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 12:34 PM
To: axp-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: For fun, intel e100 port.


Thanks for doing this.  I am fighting with the current crop of
eepro100 drivers with an ES40 and some dual API boxes.  

What kernel are you using?

I will try the patch and see how it goes.

Craig



On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 11:17:23AM -0500, Soohoon Lee wrote:
> 
> Attached is intel e100-1.5.5a driver patch for alpha.
> The driver has many advanced features like checksum offloading, auto nego,
> ARP support at chip level and many more, probably intel engineers know how
> to use that.
> With this patch, the driver basically works for alpha but I don't know
> beyond that
> 'cause I only spent couple of hours for porting and testing, there will be
> many unidentified problems.
> That's why the title starts with "For fun..."
> I guess more than 95% of porting work was replacing mmap IO access codes
to
> use read?/write?.
> So It was a kind of drudgery.
> 
> Have fun.
> Soohoon.
> 
> 



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Craig Tierney (ctierney@hpti.com)
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