On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 12:45:45PM +0100, Kevin D. Kissell wrote: > Note, however, that the Tulip driver that was part of the > standard 2.2/2.3 repository at oss.sgi.com was both > downrev with regard to the author's own web site and > subobtimal if not outright buggy in it's cache management. > The AMD PCnet driver as we found it was clean and efficient > but had no MIPS cache hooks. I had to put those in. > So unless Ralf or someone at SGI that the versions > on oss.sgi.com are the versions I cleaned up for MIPS, > I would recommend pulling them off the MIPS site. Linux 2.4 has a new DMA API which is documented in Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt. So today drivers which don't work out of the box on a MIPS system should be considered broken. Ralf
