Re: YATC(Yet Another Tulip Clone)

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

>  Well, I set out tonight to start an etherboot driver for the Davicom 9102
>ethernet chip, and I have.  After a while into it I noticed I wasn't
>changing operational part of the tulip driver I used as my base.  Turns out
>the Davicom is YATC.  So, I've patched tulip.c to handle it, it just wanted
>a little special initialization.
>  I'm attaching my patch against the full etherboot 4.6.0 tree.  It includes
>the required pci.h, config.c, and NICS changes.  Now, just need to figure
>out how to replace the lame RPL boot rom it's got right now...

Hmm, that's interesting. I wonder why Sten Wang of Davicom went to the
trouble of writing dmfe.c. Not Invented Here maybe. Thanks for the patch,
it will go into the next release.
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