On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 04:30:22PM -0400, Paul Chapman wrote: > I've been experimenting with trying various PCI cards I have lying > around in my Origin 200, to see if I can make any of them work. The current Linux implementation limits IP27 to cards with 64-bit addressing capability. > So far, I've had no luck: all of them have resource collisions with the > IOC3 (presumably because of its address decoding). They're detected > fine in /proc/pci. What kernel version are you trying? > So: has anyone had any luck with anything they've tried? In particular, > I'm looking for an ethernet card that works (and is readily available), > since the performance of the IOC3 is pretty wretched. That actually also seems to be more of a limitation of how the IP27 code is setting up RRBs for PCI devices, so any driver is expected to deliver a somewhat modest (understatement!) performance. Fixing fortunately isn't too hard ... Ralf
