Re: Do ARM-Synaptics and ARM-PCI-ethernet exist?
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 03:49:55PM +0000, Martin Guy wrote:
> Hi
> Trawling through the arm-specific packages to see if they need to
> go in armel too, I have a couple of queries as to whether certain
> hardware-specific combinations exist (or could exist).
>
> First, do ARM systems exist that have (or could have) a Synaptics
> TouchPad? That is a mousepad used on laptops. If not, this could save
> us the trouble of resolving gsynaptics' problems[1] and we could
> exclude ksynaptics and qsynaptics from the arm architectures too.
> [1] wiki.debian.org/ArmEabiProblems -> gsynaptics
>
> Second, does anyone know of an ARM system that has one of the
> following ethernet chips on the PCI bus:
> Sundance "Alta" NIC
> Intel EEPro100
> SMC EPIC-100
> Myson mtd803
> NatSemi DP83815
> PCI NE2000 clones
> NatSemi DP83820
> AMD PCnet/PCI
Our prototype had 4 before we had to switch to a different architecture
due to PCI controller problems. Not sure any product that exists does.
> RealTek RTL8129/8139
Multiple CompuLab boards do. (www.compulab.co.il)
> Adaptec Starfire DuraLAN
> Digital DC21x4*
> VIA Rhine vt86c100 and vt3043
> 3Com Vortex series
> Winbond w89c840 Ethernet cards
> Packet Engines Yellowfin chips
> This affects the need for package nictools-pci
> The closest I could find are
> the NSLU2 which has a PCI bus but whose ethernet is ixp400 in the SoC
> (just USB controllers on PCI)
> the D-Link DSM-G600 which has a VIA Velocity on its PCI bus and
> the Thecus N2100 which has an RealTek 8169 on PCI.
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Len Sorensen
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