Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Nov 2004 08:36:28 +0100 | From | Jan-Benedict Glaw <> | Subject | Re: tulip question: tulip.o vs de4x5.o |
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On Tue, 2004-11-23 12:28:54 -0500, Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com> wrote in message <Pine.LNX.4.61.0411231216470.3740@p500>: > Each driver works, I have not benchmarked performance with one over the > other with ttcp yet; however, does anyone have any experience with using > one over the other? I see the tulip has several options and the de4x5 > seems to be a rather generic driver.
The de4x5 driver supports some older revisions of the tulip chipset which aren't supported by the tulip driver. I guess it could be made to support those, too, but nobody did that up to now.
You can actually see the difference on older Alphas: de4x5 works while tulip doesn't transmit or receive a single packet (getting netdev watchdogs later on...).
MfG, JBG
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