Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Nov 2004 14:22:09 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: tulip question: tulip.o vs de4x5.o |
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Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > 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.
Incorrect, the older chips are supported by the de2104x driver.
de4x5 will be going away.
> 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...).
That's a bug in tulip.
Jeff
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