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

[Joel Sherrill <joel@OARcorp.com>]

Till Straumann wrote:
> 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.

Email them to Jennifer as well and hopefully she can merge them.

> 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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