From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: by oss.sgi.com id ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 23:56:33 -0800 Received: from [194.90.113.98] ([194.90.113.98]:7442 "EHLO yes.home.krftech.com") by oss.sgi.com with ESMTP id ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 23:56:14 -0800 Received: from jungo.com (kobie.home.krftech.com [199.204.71.69]) by yes.home.krftech.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA32045 for ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 09:55:20 +0200 Message-ID: <3A712D90.3CC9EBAF@jungo.com> Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 09:56:00 +0200 From: Michael Shmulevich Organization: Jungo LTD X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.17-21mdk i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: "linux-mips@oss.sgi.com" Subject: Re: MIPS/linux compatible PCI network cards References: <3A70A356.F3CA71F1@jungo.com> <3A70A718.F0628BBB@mvista.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: unlisted-recipients:; (no To-header on input) Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Return-Path: X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips-outgoing Pete Popov wrote: > > > Another one is the RTL8139. It's quite cheap (I think less than $20). > > Pete Surprisingly enough, Realtek's driver is quite x86-oriented. It uses some ugly outb() functtions without any ioremap()'ping. We tried to modify it to work for MIPS, but failed. There are some hard-to-detect situations, when driver just cannot talk to the hardware, probably due to transmit/receive buffer synchronization. But after some period the connection is restored (reset?). Michael Shmulevich ______________________________________ Software Developer Jungo - R&D email: michaels@jungo.com web: http://www.jungo.com Phone: 1-877-514-0537(USA) +972-9-8859365(Worldwide) ext. 233 Fax: 1-877-514-0538(USA) +972-9-8859366(Worldwide) From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3A712D90.3CC9EBAF@jungo.com> Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 09:56:00 +0200 From: Michael Shmulevich MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: MIPS/linux compatible PCI network cards References: <3A70A356.F3CA71F1@jungo.com> <3A70A718.F0628BBB@mvista.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Return-Path: Cc: "linux-mips@oss.sgi.com" Message-ID: <20010126075600.YUM0UJfdgSOwpkx7WyXcWjHiJz1CY6sqgABhrShWL9s@z> Pete Popov wrote: > > > Another one is the RTL8139. It's quite cheap (I think less than $20). > > Pete Surprisingly enough, Realtek's driver is quite x86-oriented. It uses some ugly outb() functtions without any ioremap()'ping. We tried to modify it to work for MIPS, but failed. There are some hard-to-detect situations, when driver just cannot talk to the hardware, probably due to transmit/receive buffer synchronization. But after some period the connection is restored (reset?). Michael Shmulevich ______________________________________ Software Developer Jungo - R&D email: michaels@jungo.com web: http://www.jungo.com Phone: 1-877-514-0537(USA) +972-9-8859365(Worldwide) ext. 233 Fax: 1-877-514-0538(USA) +972-9-8859366(Worldwide)