o.r.c> In article <linux.kernel.m10Q1Ey-0007U1C@the-village.bc.nu>, Alan
o.r.c> Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
>>> was just wondering what keeps us from including that tulip.c in the
>>> kernel as a driver for NetGear cards. Maybe as netgear.c? I was (just
o.r.c> . . .
>> The current tulip driver handles all these various pseudo tulip
>> abominations.
o.r.c> Out of curiosity, why do you refer to the Tulip clones as
o.r.c> `abominations'? I'm running a few of them in high-performance
o.r.c> network servers, and, with the netgear tulip.c they seem to be (on
o.r.c> the basis of performance and looking at error logs) about as nice as
o.r.c> I would want any ethernet card to be.
the older NetGear cards used genuine tulip chips, and are indeed quite
nice. however, the new ones are shipping with the PNIC OnLite tulip clone,
which (i've heard) have a pretty signifigant performance hit, and require
the latest tulip.c driver.
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