Ethernet Driver Needed for IBM PPC 405 (Codename Walnut)

[Matt Porter]

On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 09:33:56AM +1000, David Gibson wrote:
>
> On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 04:45:47PM -0400, Binh Nguyen wrote:
> >
> > I heard that some one has written an ethernet driver for the IBM PPC 405
> > board for Linux some time ago.  The author  has seen  performance
> > improvement because the driver services interrupts in a better way.  If
> > some one has a copy of the driver, would you please send it to
> > binh at us.ibm.com.  Also any tips on how to install the driver is
> > appreciated.  Thanks very much.
>
> The driver is included in the linuxppc_2_4_devel and linuxppc-2.4
> kernel trees.  You probably want to be using one of those trees in any
> case.

He might be referring to a post here (in the last 6 months or so)
where the poster mentioned writing a replacement EMAC driver that
had better performance than the standard driver.  I can't seem to
locate the post at the moment, but perhaps somebody else remembers
and can find it in the archives.

Regards,
--
Matt Porter
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