On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 10:06:45PM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> > How about merging it into official sources? This way your work won't get
> > lost and others won't try to reinvent the wheel.
>
> Of course. I wouldn't even *try* to do sth other. In fact, I'm looking
> around for various specs of various implementations (as seen from
> the bus) of the LANCE chip to see if I could manage the job to
> unify them all together:
>
> Driver file | Mentioned Chip
> ----------------------------------------------+--------------------
[...]
> ./drivers/net/a2065.c Am7990
When I wrote this one, I based it on ariadne.ce, but thanks to Jes Sørensen it
should look quite similar to sunlance now.
> ./drivers/net/ariadne.c Am79c960
The Ariadne is a bit special, because it byteswaps the data bus of the Am79c960
(PC-Net ISA, hence little endian) by hardware so the big endian m68k/PPC Amiga
doesn't have to swap packet data. But that does mean that non-packet data has
to be byteswapped.
[...]
> I really *hate* to see so many different implementations. That counts
> to about 21..25 pieces of code, always written for the same thing.
So this quote from my quote database is still valid ;-)
<QUOTE>
There are more Lance drivers than there are architectures
-- Geert Uytterhoeven on linux-kernel
</QUOTE>
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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