[tulip] IRQ weirdness between kernels

Jason Marshall marshalj@spots.ab.ca
Wed Jun 5 23:48:00 2002


> Historical oddity: It was a specific release of the v0.91g driver with
> explicit endian conversion so that tulip clone chips that didn't
> implement byte swapping would work on the PowerPC.  It was the last
> tulip driver before changes that I didn't approve were added to the driver.

Very interesting!  

> That driver doesn't have the explicit work-around for quad cards.
> Try the driver at
>  http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html
>     ftp://www.scyld.com/pub/network/tulip.c

Awesome!  Thanks very much, Donald!  

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