Re: [PATCH][2.6] de4x5 cleanup

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx>]

Marc Zyngier wrote:
> > > > > > "Jeff" == Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>
> Jeff> It looks pretty good.  My big objection isn't the Space.c stuff
> Jeff> but de4x5 itself.  I had hoped it would be gone by now :) Oh
> Jeff> well, not your fault.
>
> Well... I too, had hoped the tulip (and its dc21040 derivative)
> driver would be the only one. While it works nicely on modern stuff
> (2114[023]), it has some problems on a few of my test boxes (mostly
> Alphas with onboard 21040).

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

I know that 2114x chips with sym phys still have some issues; jamal has 
created a patch that fixes that (mostly updates tulip with the latest 
Becker phy code from Donald's tulip.c), which in turn fixes some 2114x 
issues on alpha.


> And most of all, tulip doesn't support EISA :-).

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

        Jeff