On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Donald Becker wrote:
> 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.
It's needed for the Hydra (a Zorro II Ethernet card for Amiga, with its own
driver) only. I do not intend to enable big-endian mode for whatever NE2000
clone.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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