On Sat, Oct 16, 1999 at 12:32:04PM -0400, Donald Becker wrote:
> You should always use the 'ne2k-pci' driver for PCI cards:
> The PCI driver automatically detects all cards and reads the proper IRQ.
Doesn't the 'ne' driver do this? (Well, it automatically detects at least
one PCI card...)
> The PCI driver will enable sharing of PCI IRQs
> (A PCI driver that doesn't share PCI IRQs causes many bug reports,
> as do drivers that imcorrectly try to share with SA_INTERRUPT|SA_SHIRQ)
'ne' definitely does IRQ sharing, if the card it detects is PCI.
> With most chips the PCI driver can use 32 bit (vs 16 bit) data transfers.
> The PCI driver accepts the standard set of PCI driver options
> (Note: Only a few chip types support the full_duplex[] setting.)
Okay.
I'm kind of interested to know the actual set of differences between ne and
ne2k-pci (other than that ne2k-pci obviously can't do ISA) since I've
recently run into some PCI arcnet cards and I don't _think_ I need to do a
separate driver to support them fully.
Have fun,
Avery
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