Re: MIPS/linux compatible PCI network cards

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>]

On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 12:45:45PM +0100, Kevin D. Kissell wrote:

> Note, however, that the Tulip driver that was part of the
> standard 2.2/2.3 repository at oss.sgi.com was both
> downrev with regard to the author's own web site and
> subobtimal if not outright buggy in it's cache management.
> The AMD PCnet driver as we found it was clean and efficient
> but had no MIPS cache hooks.   I had to put those in.
> So unless Ralf or someone at SGI that the versions
> on oss.sgi.com are the versions I cleaned up for MIPS,
> I would recommend pulling them off the MIPS site.

Linux 2.4 has a new DMA API which is documented in
Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt.  So today drivers which don't work out of
the box on a MIPS system should be considered broken.

  Ralf