Re: [Etherboot-developers] Free IRQs, DMSs and ioaddrs

[<ke...@us...>]

>I have been able to get my 3c515 card recognized on a non-PBP bios.  However,
> at present I have hard coded the IRQ, DMA and ioaddr.  I have not reviewed m
>uch of the non-driver code but is there any functionality already included to
> find free IRQs?  

Nope. Etherboot doesn't use IRQs.

>I would prefer not to make this driver bigger and bigger.  I suspose, I could
> rip the PNP out of the driver and make it stand alone.  Any thoughts?

Depends on how many people you think will use your driver. The 515's an
ISA NIC that runs at 100 Mb (but will never achieve that throughput due
to the limits on the ISA bus). How many people do you think will not
have a PnP BIOS for this NIC?