Subject: Re: Improving the EtherH driver.
To: Neil A. Carson <neil@causality.com>
From: Mark Brinicombe <mark@causality.com>
List: port-arm32
Date: 12/15/1997 12:18:42
On Fri, 12 Dec 1997, Neil A. Carson wrote:
> Mike Pumford wrote:
> >
> > I have been experimenting with the EtherH driver and have mostly converted
> > it to use the NetBSD generic DP8390 chip driver. This driver does improve
> > over the original driver but does produce a lot of remote transmit DMA
> > failed to complete errors.
> >
> > I was wondering if anyone has any extra information on this card which was
> > used when writing the original driver which could be used to get rid of
> > this message and complete the driver. I was also wondering if the Kernel
> > team had any done any work on improving the driver for this card that
> > would be integratable.
The ideal thing to do is to implement an etherH attachment onto the
/dev/ic/ne.c driver as the etherH card uses a ne2000 compat chip.
This should mean that very little code is actually needed.
Cheers,
mark