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> > > > I'm sure having a single driver for all the NICs is a feature cool > > enough to die for. Yes, it might have drawbacks like just pointed out > > by Peter, but surely a "single driver for all NIC" feature could prove > > to be great in some systems. > > > > Assuming it works, which is questionable in my opinion. > > > But since it does not already exist in the kernel, there must be some > > technical feasibility isse. Any ideas on this? > > No, that's not the reason. The Intel code was ugly, and the limitations > made other people not want to spend any time hacking on it. > Hi ... so there seem to be no technical feasibily issues, just reliabliy / ugly design issues? So one can still go ahead and write a Universal Protocol Driver that can work with all (PXE compatible) NICs? Are there any issues related to real mode / protected mode? Thanks, Dan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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