Re: tulip question: tulip.o vs de4x5.o

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>]

Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-11-23 12:28:54 -0500, Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>
> wrote in message <Pine.LNX.4.61.0411231216470.3740@p500>:
> 
>>Each driver works, I have not benchmarked performance with one over the 
>>other with ttcp yet; however, does anyone have any experience with using 
>>one over the other? I see the tulip has several options and the de4x5 
>>seems to be a rather generic driver.
> 
> 
> The de4x5 driver supports some older revisions of the tulip chipset
> which aren't supported by the tulip driver. I guess it could be made to
> support those, too, but nobody did that up to now.

Incorrect, the older chips are supported by the de2104x driver.

de4x5 will be going away.


> You can actually see the difference on older Alphas: de4x5 works while
> tulip doesn't transmit or receive a single packet (getting netdev
> watchdogs later on...).

That's a bug in tulip.

	Jeff