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Re: Fwd (from Ken): Tulip hackers wanted for Etherboot



markus@infoscape.com writes:
| David Sharp has contributed a Tulip driver for FreeBSD netboot which I
| have ported to Etherboot. Initial reports by Andreas Mack suggest that
| it works on a couple of chips. Unfortunately the Tulip family is not one
| chip or even a tree of upward compatible chips, but many similar chips,
| all slightly different. I'm looking for people to help *write* and test
| the conditional code that will get executed to initialise the chip. (The
| Linux driver also has to deal with this mess.) Also the autosensing
| code. If you are willing to help code, please contact me by email and I
| will tell you where to get the latest prerelease containing the Tulip
| driver. All contributions will be acknowledged in the documentation,
| as always.

I can help.  I have an assortment of DEC tulip cards and having support
may help me although we are migrating to Intel cards since there are not
as many flavours.  Also I need to send some bug fixes and new features in.

Doug A.
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