Re: [ethmac] specification for eth MAC

[Kent Dahlgren <kent@praesum.com>]

At 01:11 AM 4/12/00 +0700, you wrote:

>On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Kent Dahlgren wrote:
>
> > The question that I was asking was does anyone have any preferences about
> > which commercially available NIC to use as the basis for the 
> specification. The
> > goal here is not to have to write drivers.
> >
>
>Ok, Kent. I just misunderstood about that.
>About the basis for our specification, what is your opinion about
>SIS900/7014/7016 ?

I'm not familiar with it, but I have found SIS stuff to be, in general, cheesy.

Do you have a URL where anyone that is interested can download it and take 
a look.

Is there a Linux driver for it?

The datasheet for the Intel/DEC 21143, the latest incarnation of the 21140 
tulip can
downloaded from this location:

         http://developer.intel.com/design/network/datashts/278073.htm

>About the FIFO, how large we need ?

I would make the Tx and Rx FIFOs parameterized.

>Regards,
>Novan

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