Both models tested and seem to be quite stable and fast.
Thanks to:
- Hans Hubner <hans@Huebner.org> for giving me the cards for testing
- Georg Klug of Syskonnect, who provided me with hw docs for these cards,
very promptly and willingly - I wish all vendors would be like this
- Alfred Arnold, Linux SKNET driver author, for giving me valuable Syskonnect
contact :)
Tested with NE/2 card provided to me by Hans Hubner <hans@Huebner.ORG>.
The Compex and Arco cards were not tested. According to Linux ne2 driver,
they should work same way as NE/2.
Disk & Controller only at the moment.
This driver still needs some touchup (error recovery is not quite
good, MCA DMA controller goo should be moved to driver independant
location), but is working enough to be usable for others. And I
want this under CVS control :)
Thanks to Scott Telford <st@epcc.ed.ac.uk> for providing me docs for
these devices (IBM DASD Storage Interface Specification for MCA rev. 2.2).
and shares some bits with ISA AT1700 driver. Gee, this one was really
easy :)
This card turned out to be quite good performer - I get about 360KB/s
on 386DX PS/2 machine, which is best of all supported cards so far.
Tested with AT1720T, card donated by David Brownlee.
WD8003W/A, card provided by David Brownlee (thanks!). The SMC Elite stuff not
tested since I don't have any; hopefully it's correct, should match
information in ADF files.
The MCA-specific init quirk taken from Linux smc-mca.c driver.
I don't quite grok why it works, but it does *cross fingers*.
The WD8003W/A seems to be quite a good choice. I get like 340KB/s on my
machine, where 3c523 does only like 310KB/s. The numbers would be probably
even better with faster CPU than 386DX :)
provided to me by David Brownlee (thanks!).
Performance of this card is quite poor on my PS/2 with 386DX, like 100KB/s
at best, but as low as 5KB/s when transferring bigger files due to
packet overruns. It would be good to revisit this later, probably by
teaching the ic code to use RX Early.
i82586-based controller, similarily to e.g. ai(4), el(4) or ix(4).
The driver was modelled after the ai(4) driver.
Due to lack of better documentation, Linux 3c523 driver was used
to find out 3c523-specific quirks. Of course, the necessary work was greatly
reduced by our decend generic ic/i82586 code :)
Finally, NetBSD supports an ethernet card on IBM PS/2!
This work is based on code written by Scott D. Telford, the IBM
Token Ring card attachment was written by Gregory McGarry.
XXX this is still very experimental and development version; use at your
XXX own risk
jdolecek