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Re: base: de4x5.ko generates endless loop of errors with phobos p430tx



Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 01:09:43PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > > I think de4x5 should be a driver of last resort.  Tulip should always
> > > be preferred to drive a given piece of hardware.  I wouldn't shed any
> > > tears if we stopped shipping de4x5 by default -- it's caused no end of
> > > problems on parisc and ia64.
> > 
> > OTOH it's the only module that can drive the ethernet card of my a500
> > (hppa).
> 
> I think you have that backwards.  de4x5 *doesn't* work on hppa whereas
> tulip does.

You're right and actually I remember now that I went to a lot of bother
to make d-i/hppa force use of tulip instead of de4x5.

-- 
see shy jo

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