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SubjectRe: tulip question: tulip.o vs de4x5.o
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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