Re: [ethmac] first topics

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>]

Kent Dahlgren wrote:
> 3) You are going to make this a 10/100 MAC aren't you. There are three
> reasons for this:
> 
>         A) It's not that much harder.
>         B) It's far more interesting/useful.
>         C) Trying to find 10 Mb phys these days is difficult.

Agreed.  Plus, you want to be able to do NWay because it seems like the
only sane and standard method of negotiating cat5 media.

My suggestion for an architecture:

All 32-bit registers.
Command buffered.
Variable receive and transmit descriptor lists and frame sizes.

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