From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <000401c08812$be4d4de0$12c809c0@farout> From: "Wang Chao Feng" To: "Gregory Allen" , References: <200101181805.MAA88737@ns5.arlut.utexas.edu> Subject: Re: Ethernet controller Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 11:26:11 +0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: I don't think RTL8139 is a good choice because it's bad performance and it's hard to use. In rtl8139, the data must copy from chip's fifo to your sk_buf. In the driver of rtl8139 for linux, can can find the driver reset the chip in transmit function, because of the bug of this chip. When I flood ping the rtl8139 from a linux host, I find I must reset the chip every several minutes. regards wang ----- Original Message ----- From: Gregory Allen To: Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 2:05 AM Subject: Ethernet controller > > I am designing an embedded PPC8240 board with an ethernet interface. I am down to 2 choices: i82559 and RTL8139 > > I prefer to avoid the BGA package of the i82559, but the RTL8139 driver support is listed as having "limited PowerPC testing". I am also curious about their relative performance. > > Can anyone speak to this? > > Thanks, > -Greg > > ------ > Gregory E. Allen, MSEE Research Engineer > Applied Research Laboratories: > The University of Texas at Austin > > > ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/