| [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
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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 Alkis Tsapanidis on 13-Feb-2003 11:39 GMT | In reply to Comment 36 (Rat):
The best thing is that the OpenPCI author signed NDA with Elbox and got the MediatorSDK developer's documentation for writing new drivers for Mediator.
But what he is doing now? Instead of writing any NEW drivers he is trying to spread away the current Mediator drivers to other PCI solutions, which are not supported by their producer. BTW. As VGR posted today the Prometheus designer and programmer informed that he would not work any more on any drivers to his PCI solution.
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Do you know anything about that case? The only card OpenPCi supported when it's
development was started was the Mediator. It was made so anyone can make drivers
for it or any other PCi busboard. Apparently Elbox didn't want that as anyone
could make free drivers while they sell them themselves. So they blocked him
and even said that they'll sue him. So, he just released without Mediator
support. About the sound card drivers... It was NOT Elbox that first released
a Fortemedia 801 driver... It was DCE... CyFM coded one. Can you say that Elbox
stole DCE? :) Can you say that Titan spreads a DCE driver to other cards?
(prometheus and amithlon) :).
The same is true for the RTL8139 driver, there WAS one by DCE but was never
released to end-users, many beta-testers had it, including Titan. That was
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