Tulip (was: Re: mvme kernel patches [LONG])

David De Ridder s970707 at uia.ua.ac.be
Wed Apr 21 00:33:41 EST 1999


On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

> > > * Why is the Generic DECchip driver used instead of the DEC2x41x driver ?
> > >   Is this because of the problems with the DEC21143 ?
> > 
> > Arenn't you confused ? I think they are the sme driver under evolving
> > names. The source file is de4x5.c, tulip.c has never worked properly on
> > big endian machines. There are still problems with my source on 21143, but 
> > Matt Porter just posted agin the necessary patches. 
> 
> As of v0.91, tulip.c works again (verified by a friend with a LongTrail).

 OK. I will try it with a 2.2.6 on our MVME2306 board (DEC21140).

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