[Etherboot-developers] New SIS900 with SIS630E issue!

[David C. <dav...@rc...>]

Dear all,

The chipset sis630e built-in a different sis900 with the standalone
sis900 ethernet chip. The driver from linux 2.2 will not work with it,
only the new linux 2.4.x sis900 driver works with the sis630e . This
also leads to the etherboot sis900 driver that Marty wrote's which is
based on the linux 2.2 driver.  I haven't go through the driver souce
yet, but I guess the eeprom is a little different from the standalone
sis900 chip. If anyone is interested to find out please go ahead! I
think we only need a slight modification with comparison with the
difference of the linux 2.2 driver and the linux 2.4 driver and apply
those changes to the etherboot driver. The new driver is backward
compatible, so it is OK. The sis630e chip is also known as "GFXcel 133"
.

regards,

David