dmfe/tulip kernel module poll

[Brian Thompson <brian@eng.wayne.edu>]

Hello,

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.

To the best of my knowledge, Sun never manufactured any
expansion cards that utilize the Davicom chip and the UltraAX-i2
motherboard (Netra X1 and Sunfire V100) is the only Sun
motherboard that uses the chip. That particular motherboard
uses the tulip kernel module though, not the dmfe kernel module.

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 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.

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Brian