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

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

>Now a question to the etherboot hackers:
>
>Is this chip working propably with etherboot (current version) ?
>Are there any problems ?

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.