On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Jun Sun wrote:
> Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Jun Sun wrote:
> > > If you have NEC DDB5476 board, you can also try out my kernel on the
> > > following place. This kernel supports nfs rootfs through on-board ether
> >
> > Was it difficult to get the builtin Ethernet working? I mean, is it now
> > trivial to get it to work on the ddb5074 as well? I'm still not at work, so
> > I
> > cannot play with^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hwork on it myself.
>
> It was a tough problem, and it took me a long time to figure out.
> Basically, the srom only contains mac address - no check sum nor media
> tables. You need to by pass the checksum checking and eeprom parsing in
Having worked on Tulip drivers for the DDB (for another OS), I was already
ware of that.
> the driver code. In addition, I have to reset the tulip chip at the
> board startup time. I use pmon to do the downloading. Pmon must have
> set the chip in some state that the linux driver cannot successfully
> re-initialize it by default.
Ah, so that's the big problem! I never bothered to try resetting the Tulip.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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