I don't think RTL8139 is a good choice because it's bad performance and it's hard to use. In rtl8139, the data must copy from chip's fifo to your sk_buf. In the driver of rtl8139 for linux, can can find the driver reset the chip in transmit function, because of the bug of this chip. When I flood ping the rtl8139 from a linux host, I find I must reset the chip every several minutes.
regards wang ----- Original Message ----- From: Gregory Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <linuxppc-embedded at lists.linuxppc.org> Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 2:05 AM Subject: Ethernet controller > > I am designing an embedded PPC8240 board with an ethernet interface. I am > down to 2 choices: i82559 and RTL8139 > > I prefer to avoid the BGA package of the i82559, but the RTL8139 driver > support is listed as having "limited PowerPC testing". I am also curious > about their relative performance. > > Can anyone speak to this? > > Thanks, > -Greg > > ------ > Gregory E. Allen, MSEE Research Engineer > Applied Research Laboratories: > The University of Texas at Austin > > > ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
