[News] AFUA visited Thendic-France | ANN.lu |
Posted on 24-Apr-2002 15:30 GMT by Teemu I. Yliselä | 629 comments View flat View list |
The French Amiga user group AFUA visited the Thendic-France headquarters and met with Bill Buck and the Coyote Flux guys. Read their report here.
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Posted by Joe "Floid" Kanowitz on 26-Apr-2002 07:58 GMT | In reply to Comment 231 (Graham): On the topic of the Pegasos's hiding ethernet MAC, Graham said,
>It is in the southbridge (VIA 8221).
Graham, can you elaborate a little? I'm having a hard time finding a quick speclist for the *8231* (which is what's listed on bPlan's speclist; there is no 8221 AFAIK); this JPEG was the reference I dug up:
http://www.via.com.tw/en/images/Products/ProSavage%20Chipsets/PL133BLOCK.gif
...call me stupid (I often am), but shouldn't that be showing MII lines if there's an integrated Rhine controller? Know where there's a better specsheet?
Strangely, http://www.realtek.com.tw/htm/products/cn/rtl8201l.asp has just disappeared from the net since last night.
I was squinting at the pics of the Pegasos prototypes (in bPlan's 'art gallery') then, and did notice what may have been an extraneous Via chip lurking somewhere on the layout. I was also having a hard time tracking down the familiar crab logo of Realtek on any chips, but I don't know if they've changed designs.
http://www.via.com.tw/en/Networking/vt6102.jsp is in the same package as the Firewire controller, so I could be mistaking one for the other..
..and something vaguely http://www.via.com.tw/en/Networking/vt6105lom.jsp shaped was lying near the jack..
Really, now I'm just curious. :) The Rhine seems like a a pretty decent architecture, whether fully integrated or kicking around on a seperate chip; I'm just wondering why I can't manage to confirm its existence!
Use of it would also explain any driver lag; in a world full of Tulip clones for US$9, and Realtek cards for $6, there probably wasn't much reason for anyone @MorphOS to track down a Rhine-based card when the Pegasos was on its way anyway. From what I can tell of FreeBSD's opinion (shake-shake the magic eight ball..), a Tulip driver would be easily modified to a Rhine driver, so if they hacked Tulip first, they're covering the most popular addon cards for a firewall/server, and the onboard NIC with a little more effort.
And.. *facepalms* - anyone want to remind me what the AmigaOne's U14 supposed to be? :} |
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