On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:

On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 10:06:45PM +0200, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:

quoted

 How about merging it into official sources?  This way your work won't get
lost and others won't try to reinvent the wheel.

Of course. I wouldn't even *try* to do sth other. In fact, I'm looking
around for various specs of various implementations (as seen from
the bus) of the LANCE chip to see if I could manage the job to
unify them all together:

Driver file				      | Mentioned Chip
----------------------------------------------+--------------------

    [...]

./drivers/net/a2065.c				Am7990

When I wrote this one, I based it on ariadne.ce, but thanks to Jes Sørensen it
should look quite similar to sunlance now.

./drivers/net/ariadne.c				Am79c960

The Ariadne is a bit special, because it byteswaps the data bus of the Am79c960
(PC-Net ISA, hence little endian) by hardware so the big endian m68k/PPC Amiga
doesn't have to swap packet data. But that does mean that non-packet data has
to be byteswapped.

    [...]

I really *hate* to see so many different implementations. That counts
to about 21..25 pieces of code, always written for the same thing.

So this quote from my quote database is still valid ;-)

<QUOTE>
There are more Lance drivers than there are architectures
					-- Geert Uytterhoeven on linux-kernel
</QUOTE>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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