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Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 21:58:47 -0700
From: Eugene Surovegin <ebs@ebshome.net>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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Subject: [PATCH 0/2] New PowerPC 4xx on-chip ethernet controller driver
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Jeff,

the following patches replace current PowerPC 4xx EMAC driver with 
new, re-written version.

New driver uses NAPI, it solves problems under heavy packet load and 
low memory, corrects chip register access and fixes numerous small 
bugs I don't even remember now :).

This patch has been tested on all supported in 2.6 PPC 4xx boards. 
It's been used in production for almost a year now on custom 
4xx hardware. PPC32 specific parts were just posted to linuxppc-dev 
and linuxppc-embedded mail lists.

Patch was acked by the current EMAC driver maintainer (Matt Porter). I 
will be maintaining this new version.

Signed-off-by: Eugene Surovegin <ebs@ebshome.net>