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Re: question

Lennart Sorensen kiedys napisal:

> On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 08:12:44PM +0200, Marcin D?bicki wrote:
>> I just wanted to say that the primary adapter I call this device is a
>> device like Marvell Yukon (not Yukon) but nForce has an API used to hide
>> real interface from OS. True adapter driver is on nvidia chipset because
>> only chipset sees what adapter is installed. So if you are using
>> forcedeth then you are really telling chipset what to do. Chipset
>> translates your order and tells adapter what you want. Using forcedeth
>> you are not talking to adapter directly but only to nForce chipset.
> 
> forcedeth is a driver for the nvidia MAC.  It doesn't really matter much
> which PHY is connected outside the chipset to provide the actual port,
> since that is mostly generic as far as the driver is concerned.
> 
And this is what I've jus told using other words;)

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