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From: "Kevin D. Kissell" <kevink@mips.com>
To: "David Milburn" <dmilburn@redhat.com>, <linux-mips@oss.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: PCI ethernet cards
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 09:26:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <002301c1d569$4af46ea0$0deca8c0@Ulysses> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3CA10449.F0088B95@redhat.com

> Can anyone recommend some PCI 100 Mbit ethernet cards/drivers
> that work well with the 2.4 linux-mips kernel?

At MIPS, we use AMD PCnet32 cards pretty exclusively,
and with good success under both 2.2 and 2.4.  For 2.2,
we did a pretty thorough reworking of the driver to deal with 
MIPS endianness and (especially) cache issues, but I believe
we use the 2.4 driver "out of the box".  YMMV, of course.

            Kevin K.

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From: "Kevin D. Kissell" <kevink@mips.com>
To: David Milburn <dmilburn@redhat.com>, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: PCI ethernet cards
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 09:26:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <002301c1d569$4af46ea0$0deca8c0@Ulysses> (raw)
Message-ID: <20020327082650.UbwPpFgjsGlLEUC9JLD3-GBWoopoxFZ3-gRii10IsK4@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3CA10449.F0088B95@redhat.com

> Can anyone recommend some PCI 100 Mbit ethernet cards/drivers
> that work well with the 2.4 linux-mips kernel?

At MIPS, we use AMD PCnet32 cards pretty exclusively,
and with good success under both 2.2 and 2.4.  For 2.2,
we did a pretty thorough reworking of the driver to deal with 
MIPS endianness and (especially) cache issues, but I believe
we use the 2.4 driver "out of the box".  YMMV, of course.

            Kevin K.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-03-27  8:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-26 23:29 PCI ethernet cards David Milburn
2002-03-27  7:42 ` Kevin Paul Herbert
2002-03-27  8:26 ` Kevin D. Kissell [this message]
2002-03-27  8:26   ` Kevin D. Kissell

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