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RE: Why 2 82559 drivers?
- To: 'Andre Asselin' <asselin at us dot ibm dot com>, ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Subject: RE: [ECOS] Why 2 82559 drivers?
- From: Fabrice Gautier <Fabrice_Gautier at sdesigns dot com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 15:13:49 -0700
Actually there is also one for the pc target, one for the ebsa285, one for
the Integrator (not in cvs), etc...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andre Asselin [mailto:asselin@us.ibm.com]
> Subject: [ECOS] Why 2 82559 drivers?
>
>
> I was looking over the ethernet drivers recently, and noticed
> that there
> are two drivers for the Intel 82559:
> \packages\devs\eth\arm\iq80310\current\src\if_iq80310.c and
> \packages\devs\eth\intel\i82559\current\src\if_i82559.c. I'm
> curious: why
> are there two drivers for this chip? Is the 80310 so
> different that it
> needed its own version of the driver?
--
Fabrice Gautier,
Fabrice_Gautier@sdesigns.com