Re: NE2000 endianness

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On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

> Here are some endianness-related patches for NE2000:
> 
>   - Peter De Schrijver's new Hydra driver which uses the generic 8390 core
>     needs to operate the 8390 in big-endian mode, so I added a flag for that.

Have you actually tested this with different chips?

Some (perhap "most") NE2000 clones don't do anything with the endian-swap bit.
Remember, if the ancient Novell NE2000 driver didn't depend on the
feature, the feature is broken on some clone.


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