On 12-05-20 05:10 PM, Michael Schmitz wrote: > Paul, > > On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 4:31 AM, Paul Gortmaker > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Geert, >> >> A discussion is underway with respect to the future of the various ISA >> drivers[1], and Alan suggested checking with the m68k folks: >> >> Check with the M68K people however. 3c501 won't matter to them but I'm >> not sure which of the other chips ended up on Amiga ISA bridges. I know >> NE2000 clones did. >> >> I know you've currently got that "almost ne2k" driver that runs IRQ-less. >> Are >> there other "ISA-like" onboard devices in the M68k harware scope that rely on >> existing (x86) ISA drivers? > > Not sure it's still considered ISA based in its current state, but the > smc91x is another one used on Atari. That one's got an interrupt > though, and I had confirmation that it works fine from a user just a > few days ago. > > You mentioned the IRQ-less ne2k already - making that one run on > netpoll has stalled for now because I'm too busy at work. Neither > driver has been merged mainstream yet. > > Most of the Amiga cards are 8390 or Lance based IIRC (there's a Lance > based Atari driver as well!) but these do not share code with the ISA > Lance drivers as far as I can see. Geert may know more details.
Thanks Michael for the level headed on-topic reply, I appreciate it. That smc is used by 20-odd arm defconfigs, so it really isn't valid to consider it as a stand alone ISA card used just by older x86 hardware with ISA bus. In fact I'm not sure it ever shipped as a standalone ISA card... Paul. > > Cheers, > > Michael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-m68k" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
