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Date:      Tue, 04 Aug 1998 10:29:29 -0700
From:      Ted Faber <faber@ISI.EDU>
To:        Robert Swindells <rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk>
Cc:        se@FreeBSD.ORG, fmc@reanimators.org, mike@smith.net.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: AMD PCNet/FAST cards; suppliers? 
Message-ID:  <199808041729.KAA18553@tnt.isi.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 02 Aug 1998 11:54:30 BST." <199808021054.LAA00638@fdy2.demon.co.uk> 

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Robert Swindells wrote:
>I haven't written a new driver, just made minor changes to the old one.
>
>The changes are:
>
> * Add probing support for the chip IDs for newer PCnet chips - 79c970A,
>   79c971 and 79c972.
>
> * Add support for reading and writing the BCR registers. Not currently
>   used, but you need it to be able to add ifmedia support.
>
> * Modify pcnet_probe() to always return the chip type even if it is a
>   PCI device. The probe routines that call this now check for the
>   returned chip type when determining whether to attach it.
>
>Things not done:
>
> * No probe for 79c960A (PCnet-ISA II)
>
> * The chip ID for the 79c970 doesn't look right. It may be that the probe
>   for this only worked because there was no distinction between "Unknown"
>   and "PCI".
>
>I'll check into these two before doing a send-pr.

If it's OK with you all, I'd just as soon take Robert's patches than
work on getting my bogus ones to work.  Unless I hear otherwise, I'll
assume that's whats happening.

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Ted Faber                                                faber@isi.edu
USC/ISI Computer Scientist                   http://www.isi.edu/~faber
(310) 822-1511 x190      PGP Key: http://www.isi.edu/~faber/pubkey.asc



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