To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH][2.6] de4x5 cleanup
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From: Marc Zyngier <mzyngier@freesurf.fr>
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 23:22:02 +0200
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>>>>> "Jeff" == Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> writes:

Jeff> Well, 2.6 tulip intentionally doesn't work at all on 21040 and
Jeff> 21041 :) That's what de2104x driver is for.  Can you give that a
Jeff> beating, and verify that it works for you?

Last time I checked, I had ugly Oopses on one of my alpha boxes
(AS-255), but that whas a few month ago, and I had other stuff to fix
at the moment. I'll give it a go tomorrow.

Jeff> If it meant I could kill de4x5, then I would be all for adding
Jeff> EISA support to tulip... :)

I'm afraid this would introduce a lot of the ugly crap that is
currently in de4x5 (21040 is seen through an EISA to PCI bridge, with
a sparse mapping)... I'll have a look at what we can do without
introduce too many hacks.

If de2104x behaves correctly, another solution would be to turn de4x5
to be EISA only. That would be a good way to finally kill it ;-).

Thanks,

        M.
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