On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 08:34:05PM -0800, Scott Feldman wrote:
> So there is nothing left. Why not just remove eepro100?
This has been coming up every few months for a while now. e100 doesn't
work on a number of ARM platforms due to its (ab)use of the DMA API.
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0406.3/1438.html
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0406.3/1481.html
Apparently, Intel have shown no interest in fixing e100 for ARM, which
because Intel also manufactures ARM-based CPUs leads to the situation
where an Intel NIC is not supported in combination with an Intel CPU.
IMHO, this is an even weirder situation than if Intel were to not
support the Intel NIC silicon on third-party NICs.. *ducks* :-)
Can we put a comment in eepro100.c stating our reasons for keeping it
for the time being?
cheers,
Lennert
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