Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Nov 2004 14:51:16 -0500 (EST) | From | Justin Piszcz <> | Subject | Re: tulip question: tulip.o vs de4x5.o |
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Thanks for all the feedback, I am using the tulip driver, it seems to be working well.
On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 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 > > > - 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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