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SubjectRe: 2.0 kernels, tulip driver, crashes and reboots (long)
On Sun, 10 Jan 1999, Alan Cox wrote:

> > An alternative driver that works with most Tulip cards (but maybe not some
> > of the newer clones) is the de4x5.c driver. I'd check it out - we had
> > stability problems with tulip.c and swapping it for de4x5.c sorted them
> > out.
>
> The older tulip driver blows up under certain memory conditions (fixed
> by 0.89H) when certain variants get overlarge packets (fixed in 0.89K
> I believe) and when some clones hand back crazy size reports (ditto).

Then why not use v0.89K instead of v0.89H in the kernel? Does the
K-version contain bugs that the H-version doesn't contain? At least to me,
K sounds like it is a newer version than H... (...HIJK...)

> 0.90 seems to work very well unless you have a VIA chipset.

Of course, the best solution would be to find the reason for this.

/David Weinehall
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