etherboot-developers

Re: [Etherboot-developers] Re: Intel 82559 chip - work ?

[Marty C. <md...@th...>]

On 10/31/2000 9:21 PM Ken Yap ke...@nl... wrote:
>The EEPRO100 NIC uses this chip, and there's an Etherboot driver, and
>AFAIK it generally works although there have been sporadic reports of
>problems, unclear whether due to chip revisions or BIOS versions or
>what. One thing I'm not happy about is the use of a counting loop to
>implement the timeout in the transmit routine, it's processor speed
>dependent and should be changed to use the new hardware timer routines.

We should have a wish-list or something where ideas like this go.  I try 
to remember things like this, but it would be easier to consult a list.  
One of these weekends I may get to the SiS900 driver, for example :-)

Marty

Re: [Etherboot-developers] Re: Intel 82559 chip - work ?

[Ken Y. <ke...@nl...>]

>We should have a wish-list or something where ideas like this go.  I try 
>to remember things like this, but it would be easier to consult a list.  
>One of these weekends I may get to the SiS900 driver, for example :-)

I'll see what I can do with the Task Manager in Sourceforge, it may be
for this sort of thing.

Re: [Etherboot-developers] Re: Intel 82559 chip - work ?

[Ken Y. <ke...@nl...>]

>We should have a wish-list or something where ideas like this go.  I try 
>to remember things like this, but it would be easier to consult a list.  
>One of these weekends I may get to the SiS900 driver, for example :-)

I've entered it into the Support Manager. It may not sound like a
support problem but I think the definition of support is broad enough,
it's just a problem ticket system that we need in the final analysis.