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

[Till Straumann]

Joel Sherrill wrote:

> 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? 

Sure - I can post the stuff but unfortunately I can't do the integration
myself. My available time is dramatically below zero.

T.

>
>
>> - 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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