From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: Level One LXT1001 GE chip Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 12:26:42 +0100 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20031127122642.046d07ce.ak@suse.de> References: <3FC3FB99.70700@wanadoo.es> <20031127010324.061cac3b.davem@redhat.com> <20031127122021.3ac80a86.ak@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: davem@redhat.com, xose@wanadoo.es, netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: Andi Kleen In-Reply-To: <20031127122021.3ac80a86.ak@suse.de> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 12:20:21 +0100 Andi Kleen wrote: > On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 01:03:24 -0800 > "David S. Miller" wrote: > > > On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 02:02:17 +0100 > > Xose Vazquez Perez wrote: > > > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~wpaul/Level1/LXT1001SRM.pdf > > > > Looks mildly interesting, I might be inspired to cook up > > a fresh driver :) > > Actually there is an old vendor driver for the lxt1001 > (but it is quite ugly and will probably need some porting for 2.6 > or even 2.4) > > I've been also slowly working on a new driver, but still nothing > releasable. BTW I should add - the chipset is really dead. Intel has bought LevelOne and killed it. You are unlikely to be able to get any new cards for it. But it is an quite interesting architecture (with some complete stupidity and some interesting features) and rather different from a classic Tulip/AMD like network card. -Andi