[News] OpenPCI 1.0 and OpenPCI 8139 Device 1.0 released | ANN.lu |
Posted on 09-Feb-2003 19:31 GMT by Benjamin Vernoux (Titan) (Edited on 2003-02-09 23:52:34 GMT by Christophe Decanini) | 41 comments View flat View list |
On the OpenPCI Project WWW Page (in English only):
OpenPCI library 1.0 released
openpci_8139.device 1.0 released (Fast Ethernet(10/100Mb) driver)
The OpenPCI library is a wrapper for use lot of PCI Bus on :
Amiga/Amithlon/Pegasos (GrexA1200/A4000 (require cybpci.library), Prometheus (require prometheus.library v2.x), Amithlon (require powerpci.library v1.76), Pegasos (require Pegasos+MorphOS)).
The OpenPCI library 1.0 is officialy released for public,
with a Fast Ethernet (10/100Mb) driver :
openpci_8139.device v1.0 is for Realtek RTL8139 B/C/D/E chipset.
Tested with Miami/MiamiDX.
Only the 68k version of OpenPCI library is released but soon the native PPC MOS version will be available with native MOS PPC 8139 device.
OpenPCI Project WWW Page (in English only)
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Posted by Iggy Drougge on 12-Feb-2003 06:27 GMT | Please, Mr. Rat (if that is your real name), could you tell us in which way the OpenPCI author has made use of Elbox intellectual property? Are you implying that he disassembled the Elbox driver source code?
Sounds like a waste of time, considering that the programming specs for the Realtek cards are public (and thus more readable than a disassembly) and that the Elbox drivers are aimed solely at Mediator hardware (which makes implementation on an open library so much harder). You could just as well be blaming Linux programmers for "using" Elbox.
And this driver, I think we can all agree on that, *is* written from scratch, just like Elbox's. Elbox weren't the first ever to write a Realtek NIC driver (though perhaps on the Amiga/Mediator platform) either. It's written from scratch, just like Elbox's.
Besides, OpenPCI would work on Mediators as well, only Elbox is getting in the way of that. That isn't in the interest of the platform as a whole.
As for the choice of a Realtek card, I suppose that that would be for the same reasons that Elbox choose to write their driver. It's cheap and cheerful, unlike 3Com cards. Of course, they're so absolutely hideous that they don't really deserve to be called 100 Mb cards, but that's beside the point. I, too, would rather he'd written a driver for a 3Com or DEC card, but then cheap bastards wouldn't be able to buy it at the hardware shop (the kind of shop which sells hammers and screwdrivers) at a ridiculously low price and claim that they had a 100 Mb card. |
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