Re: [Etherboot-developers] Wanted -the sis900 etherboot developer

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stanimir <st...@fb...> writes:

> I noticed that etheboot driver recognise the sis900 PHYtransiver as VIA 6103,
> but the linux driver says - UNKNOWN PHYTRANSIVER and continues booting and
> working but with that terribly slow speed.
> I'm not C coder, but when I browsed sis900.c file in all linux modiles, which I
> managed to find in SIS web site and in kernel.org, I noticed that there is
> missing the code considering VIA 6103 PHYtransiver.
> Only the etherboot driver sis900.c has rows in the sorce code describing it.
> Can this be the answer of that network speed slowdown?

Perhaps.  I would suggest building a very large image say 30Megs, timing it.
Is etherboot faster than 1mbit a second?  Maybe it just prints the name.

I haven't a clue what the difference is.

Eric