Re: via-rhine driver available

[Marty Connor <mdc@thinguin.org>]

On 1/10/2000 10:16 PM ken@nlc.net.au Ken Yap wrote:
>Paolo Marini has contributed a via-rhine driver to Etherboot and I have
>put up a tarball at http://www.slug.org.au/etherboot/via-rhine.tar.gz

Great! Nice Code! World Domination, and Fast!! :-)

>Please test this out so that I can put it in the next release.

It seems to work fine with my D-Link DFE530TX board.

>I note that the footprint is 30kB and may need some trimming if problems
>arise because of this.

No problem.  Step right up to "Marty's Etherboot Slim Quick Chamber".
"this won't hurt a bit..." ;-)

Before: Working ok, but a tad overweight...

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  14135     368   16128   30631    77a7 via-rhine.tmp
                          ^^^^^
After: Slim, and ready to party! 

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  14139     368    9888   24395    5f4b via-rhine.tmp
                          ^^^^^
Oh yes, the patch:

in via-rhine.c, go to line 412-413 and change:

#define TX_RING_SIZE 4
#define RX_RING_SIZE 4

to

#define TX_RING_SIZE 2
#define RX_RING_SIZE 2

that's it. (hey, what do you want for free? ;-)

Anyway, looks like Etherboot supports yet another card.

"Never give up!  Never surrender!"

Regards,

Marty



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