Re: Plan for e100-e1000 in mainline

Jamie Lokier (lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Mon, 6 May 2002 11:19:50 +0100


Jeff Garzik wrote:
> You can easily copy drivers/net/e100[0] into a 2.4.x kernel, it likely
> compiles without modification.

It does, except that you need to
#define cpu_relax() rep_nop()
or something very similar.

Fwiw, the e100 driver from 2.5, running on 2.4, can forward at a
somewhat higher packet rate than the e100 which Red Hat 7.2 provides
with 2.4...

-- Jamie
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