Re: RFC: Adding no-BIOS support to Linux?

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Tue Feb 15 2000 - 11:14:21 EST


> This is all "if I recall correctly", I had the same idea for something like
> that with an Elan a while ago... It is a good chip... Though I am unsure how
> are you going to get eepro100 working in view of Elan's differences in DMA and
> busmastering (or lack of thereof).

Nod. Most people appear to use shared memory devices like the Crystal CS89xx
series devices to avoid DMA issues on small embedded boards - that or the
good old ne2000 clone

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Tue Feb 15 2000 - 21:00:29 EST