On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 08:21:56PM -0500, Brian Thompson wrote:
I'd like to get some feedback as to whether anyone is actually using the dmfe Davicom kernel module on sparc for 10/100 ethernet.
I do not at the immediate moment, but I have in the past. As the onboard NIC on my Ultra 5 has a poor connection with the Ethernet cable, I would actually be quite likely to install a dmfe NIC into it.
Since the PCI ID of the UltraAX-i2's onboard ethernet (1282:9102 - Davicom 9102) matches up with both the dmfe module and the tulip module, both modules attempt to load and end up causing the network interface to malfunction. My question is - is anyone actually using the dmfe kernel module on sparc and/or would it be ok to set the default to not build the dmfe kernel module on sparc?
I would object to removing the dmfe module. If you need to change dmfe so that it doesn't register for that PCI ID, then I have no problem with that.
I presume that the only scenario where anyone would actually be using the dmfe kernel module on sparc would be if they've installed a PCI NIC originally intended for x86 machines into their sparc machine.
Well, PCI isn't "intended" for any particular architecture. If the architecture supports PCI, then a PCI NIC is "intended" for that architecture. I have a large number of PCI NICs, and I'm pretty sure that I've used the dmfe module on my Ultra 5 with a third-party NIC. As long as sparc supports PCI (which it likely will for the indefinite future), I'd be opposed to removing the dmfe module. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 713 440 7475 | http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc | My opinion only troff on top of XML: http://crustytoothpaste.ath.cx/~bmc/code/thwack OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187
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