On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 09:33:56AM +1000, David Gibson wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 04:45:47PM -0400, Binh Nguyen wrote: > > > > I heard that some one has written an ethernet driver for the IBM PPC 405 > > board for Linux some time ago. The author has seen performance > > improvement because the driver services interrupts in a better way. If > > some one has a copy of the driver, would you please send it to > > binh at us.ibm.com. Also any tips on how to install the driver is > > appreciated. Thanks very much. > > The driver is included in the linuxppc_2_4_devel and linuxppc-2.4 > kernel trees. You probably want to be using one of those trees in any > case.
He might be referring to a post here (in the last 6 months or so) where the poster mentioned writing a replacement EMAC driver that had better performance than the standard driver. I can't seem to locate the post at the moment, but perhaps somebody else remembers and can find it in the archives. Regards, -- Matt Porter porter at cox.net This is Linux Country. On a quiet night, you can hear Windows reboot. ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
