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RE: Why 2 82559 drivers?
- To: Fabrice Gautier <Fabrice_Gautier at sdesigns dot com>
- Subject: RE: [ECOS] Why 2 82559 drivers?
- From: "Andre Asselin" <asselin at us dot ibm dot com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 18:23:21 -0400
- Cc: ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
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
<Fabrice_Gautier@sde To: Andre Asselin/Raleigh/IBM@IBMUS, ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com
signs.com> cc:
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