From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 20:26:00 +0100 To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Subject: Choosing an Ethernet controller... Message-Id: <19990118202600.009236@mail.mipsys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: I know this is a little bit out-of-topic, but I'm sure someone on this list can answer and I didn't really know how to actually ask this... For an embedded developement, I have to choose among 3 different PCI ethernet controllers. A DEC/Intel 21143 (Tulip), an AMD79C971 (PCNet32) or a SMC83C171 (Epic100). The processor will not be a PPC but a StrongARM. (we proposed a PPC, but the client wanted a StrongARM). All three seems to be supported by Linux, I will use a 2.0.x kernel at first, on a StrongARM, but we plan to move to 2.2 once it's stable enough. Are there any known problems with one of those chips ? Is someone aware of any specific problem with one of those beasts or it's linux driver ? Which one would you choose ? Thanks ! -- E-Mail: BenH. Web : [[ This message was sent via the linuxppc-dev mailing list. Replies are ]] [[ not forced back to the list, so be sure to Cc linuxppc-dev if your ]] [[ reply is of general interest. To unsubscribe from linuxppc-dev, send ]] [[ the message 'unsubscribe' to linuxppc-dev-request@lists.linuxppc.org ]]