yellowfin.c v0.99.03 (now v1.01)

Chang Hyeoungkyu chk@etri.re.kr
Wed Jul 8 00:30:16 1998


Thank you very much to Mr. RW Hawkins, Mr. Kyu-Sang Park,
Mr. Christian Worley and Mr. Donald Becker for sending me the
yellowfin.c so kindly.

For your information, the latest version is v1.01 in
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/test/yellowfin.c
as you can see at the following reply.

> Date: Tue, 7 Jul 1998 19:40:09 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Donald Becker <becker@cesdis1.gsfc.nasa.gov>
> X-Sender: becker@beowulf.gsfc.nasa.gov
> Cc: yellowfin@cesdis1.gsfc.nasa.gov, Bruce@digitalscape.com
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> 
> On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Chang Hyeoungkyu wrote:
> 
> > After reading "http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/yellowfin.html",
> > I tried to get the yellowfin.c v0.99.03 for several weeks without success.
> > 
> > [v0.99.03 of 5/18/98                                     ]
> > [     Removal of 1.2.* support.                          ]
> > [     Support the Symbios version of the chip core.      ]
> > [     Changed to interrupt with every transmitted packet.]
> 
> The latest version is v1.01 in
>   http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/test/yellowfin.c
> 
> Version 1.01 adds support for the Symbios '885 chip on both Alpha and x86
> architectures, as well as improving the low-memory receive performance.
> 
> Version 1.00 is the correct name for the code released in kernel 2.0.34.
> All of the drivers labeled  "v0.99*" were supposed to have been incremented
> to v1.00 at the official kernel release.  Pretend that they were...
> 
> In other news: The GNIC-II is a noticably different chip.  The driver is
> being developed under the name "gnic2.c".  Well, at least until I find out
> a better name for it or decide that it can be merged with yellowfin.c .
> 
> Donald Becker					  becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
> USRA-CESDIS, Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences.
> Code 930.5, Goddard Space Flight Center,  Greenbelt, MD.  20771
> 301-286-0882	     http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/people/becker/whoiam.html
> 

Thank you again.

Best Regards.

-- 
Chang Hyeoungkyu
Real-time OS Team
Switching & Transmission Technology Lab.	E-mail: chk@etri.re.kr
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