Re: Ethernet Driver Needed for IBM PPC 405 (Codename Walnut)

quoted

I heard that some one has written an ethernet driver for the IBM PPC

405

quoted

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@us.ibm.com.  Also any tips on how to install the driver is
appreciated.  Thanks very much.

Some clarifications to the origional posting:  I am refering to a post
where the poster mentioned writing a replacement EMAC driver that had
produced better performance than the standard one shippped with MontaVista
Linux.

Binh Nguyen




                      Matt Porter
                      [off-list ref]         To:       Binh Nguyen/Raleigh/IBM@IBMUS,
                                                linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org,
                      04/08/03 08:24 PM         linuxppc-users@lists.linuxppc.org
                                               cc:
                                               Subject:  Re: Ethernet Driver Needed for IBM PPC 405
                                                (Codename Walnut)






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:

quoted

I heard that some one has written an ethernet driver for the IBM PPC

405

quoted

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@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
porter@cox.net
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