Re: [Etherboot-developers] rtl8139 TX timeout solved (for me)

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

On 9/4/2001 4:59 PM Eric W. Biederman ebi...@ln... wrote:
>Given that we need this for both linuxBIOS and some of the more different 
>BIOS's I suspect we should create some helper functions like 
>pci_enable_device and pci_set_master (examples from the linux kernel api) 
>and use these in all of the pci networking drivers. 
>Marty, Ken what do you think?

I think this would be a good idea.  There is inconsistency in how drivers 
handle PCI initialization, and I think it should probably be done before 
the call to eth_reset, so that the driver doesn't have to deal with it.  
This shouldn't increase code size, and would likely fix some BIOS 
incompatibility bugs.

Marty

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