Re: Problems with EEPR100 and etherboot

[Ken Yap <ken@nlc.net.au>]

>Perhaps. However, with Asus P5A (unfortunately most of our motherboards
>are of this type) all revisions give exactly the same problems. I also
>tried to compare the eepro100 driver in etherboot package and in the Linux
>kernel, since Linux kernel drivers works okay for all card revisions in
>all motherboards, but I don't know enough about device drivers to tell
>what is the difference. Is there anything preventing the etherboot eepro100
>driver to initialize and probe the card in the same way than Linux kernel
>driver does?

Linux drivers have no connection with Etherboot drivers except perhaps
as a source of reverse engineering info. The software framework is
different.* As to whether or not the Etherboot driver does the probe
in the same way as the Linux driver depends on the person who did the
"port".  Feel free to modify the source and send back updates, hint hint.

* As to why they are different, long story, but basically different
origins and tight memory environment for the operating environment of
boot ROMs. The NILO project hopes to unify everything under Linux/*BSD
drivers but that's some time off, check the NILO mailing list for updates.
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