From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Jan-Benedict Glaw <jbglaw@lug-owl.de>
Cc: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: tulip question: tulip.o vs de4x5.o
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 14:22:09 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41A4DF61.8050008@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041124073628.GJ2067@lug-owl.de>
Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-11-23 12:28:54 -0500, Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>
> wrote in message <Pine.LNX.4.61.0411231216470.3740@p500>:
>
>>Each driver works, I have not benchmarked performance with one over the
>>other with ttcp yet; however, does anyone have any experience with using
>>one over the other? I see the tulip has several options and the de4x5
>>seems to be a rather generic driver.
>
>
> The de4x5 driver supports some older revisions of the tulip chipset
> which aren't supported by the tulip driver. I guess it could be made to
> support those, too, but nobody did that up to now.
Incorrect, the older chips are supported by the de2104x driver.
de4x5 will be going away.
> You can actually see the difference on older Alphas: de4x5 works while
> tulip doesn't transmit or receive a single packet (getting netdev
> watchdogs later on...).
That's a bug in tulip.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-24 20:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-23 17:28 tulip question: tulip.o vs de4x5.o Justin Piszcz
2004-11-24 7:36 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2004-11-24 19:22 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2004-11-24 19:51 ` Justin Piszcz
2004-12-14 10:10 ` Lech Szychowski
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