Hello there;
I am designing a ARM110 board around Intel's (formerly DEC's) EBSA-285
evaluation board. This board will have a SA-110 with it's companion chip,
the 21285. It will hook up to Symbios's NCR53C895 Ultra 2 SCSI controller,
and Intel's 82559 Ethernet controller.
I have looked at the Linux-Arm port, and it seems that the EBSA-285
configuration is supported. I have some questions about the port, hopefully
someone can answer:
- What is the status of the EBSA-285 port? Have most of the bugs been worked
out?
- Although there are Linux drivers for the 53C895 and 82559 (82558, which is
pin/software compatible), what problems will we have in porting the drivers
over to the platform?
- It was mentioned that the Tulip driver (Intel's ethernet chipset) has bugs
in it. Will those bugs be relevant to our SCSI/Ethernet port?
- What is the general feeling on the performance of the StrongArm?
What is the story with Intel? My supplier says Intel is not quoting lead
times on it's StrongArm parts. Supposedly, when they received the stock from
DEC as part of the deal, they double counted it. Now they have over
committed, and are doing an internal audit. This scares me, and although the
port seems very stable for the StrongArm, NEC's MIPs chipsets (the VR4300
and VRC4373) look very tempting.
Cheers
{- Stephen Noftall, LCS : http://www.lcsaudio.com -}
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