I know the kernel e1000 driver works on ppc (at least on an 8245).
On Jan 14, 2004, at 8:00 AM, Dayton, Dean wrote: > Is there a PPC compatible driver available for this the 82546 Intel Pro > 1000. I was just handed an SBE lanPMC card with this chipset on it > yesterday. I am trying to use it on an 8265 based system with a 2.4.21 > kernel. The driver in this kernel crashes on startup. A quick look at > the > driver makes me think that it has never been used on anything but x86. > Am I > misreading the situation? Is there an enhanced driver available? > > Thanks > Dean Dayton > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Samuel Agarwal [mailto:sagarwal10 at hotmail.com] >> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2004 1:37 AM >> To: linux-mips at linux-mips.org; linuxppc-embedded at lists.linuxppc.org >> Subject: Intel Pro 82546 chipset performance >> >> Hi >> >> We're trying to use the Intel Pro 1000 adapters with the >> 82546 chipset for a packet switching application. Has anyone >> investigated performance on this chipset? With minimum sized >> ethernet frames, the maximum throughput I can get is about 1 >> million packets per second (versus a 1.4 mill for line rate >> on a gigethernet) and it looks that performance is skewed >> towards receiving traffic (rather than sending out). >> >> If anyone has any opinions or thoughts I'd appreciate them. >> It's hard to get information out of Intel. ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
