From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id f6V0YHw18330 for linux-mips-outgoing; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 17:34:17 -0700 Received: from solo.franken.de (pD9054444.dip.t-dialin.net [217.5.68.68]) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id f6V0YFV18327 for ; Mon, 30 Jul 2001 17:34:16 -0700 Received: (from tsbogend@localhost) by solo.franken.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id CAA06404; Tue, 31 Jul 2001 02:32:45 +0200 Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 02:32:45 +0200 From: Thomas Bogendoerfer To: Jan-Benedict Glaw Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" , Dave Airlie , SGI MIPS list , Debian MIPS list , engel@unix-ag.org Subject: Re: [long] Lance on DS5k/200 Message-ID: <20010731023245.A6371@solo.franken.de> References: <20010731002421.A19713@lug-owl.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010731002421.A19713@lug-owl.de>; from jbglaw@lug-owl.de on Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 12:24:21AM +0200 Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 12:24:21AM +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > Of course. I wouldn't even *try* to do sth other. In fact, I'm looking > around for various specs of various implementations (as seen from > the bus) of the LANCE chip to see if I could manage the job to > unify them all together: > ./drivers/net/pcnet32.c none mentioned even if it's based on the lance design from AMD (and it support a lance compatible mode), you won't be able to unify this driver with other lance drivers since the driver uses the 32bit mode of the pcnet32 chip familiy 79C97[0-8]). Thomas. -- Crap can work. Given enough thrust pigs will fly, but it's not necessary a good idea. [ Alexander Viro on linux-kernel ]