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RE: Why 2 82559 drivers?


Actually, the PC target uses the source code from the intel directory and
only supplies a header file to configure a few options.  But you're right
that ebsa285 has yet another version of the 82559 driver source!

Andre Asselin
IBM ServeRAID Software Development
Research Triangle Park, NC



                                                                                                                                               
                    Fabrice Gautier                                                                                                            
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                                               Subject:     RE: [ECOS] Why 2 82559 drivers?                                                    
                    09/10/2001 06:13 PM                                                                                                        
                                                                                                                                               
                                                                                                                                               



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





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