experimental networking drivers for amd pcnet / 79c973 (PCI) and intel eepro 10 / i82595 (ISA) available

[Joel Sherrill <joel@OARcorp.com>]

Till Straumann wrote:
> Hi - FYI:
> 
> I ported the freebsd 'pcn' and 'ex' drivers to RTEMS
> 
> - 'ex' supports the (quite old) intel 'eepro 10' / i82595 chip.
>  Board-level support only for pc586 BSP and ISA cards
>  implemented.
> 
> - 'pcn' supports the AMD 'pcnet' chip based PCI cards
>  (79c973 + similar). I fixed endianness issues and made
>  it work on powerpc ('shared' + derived BSPs). Should
>  also work on pc586 [maybe with minor mods to accommodate
>  for differences in PCI and IRQ APIs].

FYI Jennifer has been working to increase the commonality between the 
PPC, x86, and ARM "new" exception model implementations.  She is
also tidying up the bits I let on the PCI API unification.  So getting
this in the CVS tree is important.

Till can we get them into the main tree?

> - I had begun porting 'lnc' but then realized that 'pcn' was
>  what I wanted. I abandoned 'lnc' due to address space
>  restrictions. If someone needs to support the original
>  'lance' chip - I have at least something to get you started...

I recall seeing the Lance on a lot of older boards but for the life of 
me, I don't remember one of them. :)

> HTH
> -- Till
> 


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