Bill Davidsen wrote:Frankly I think there are more of us running old cards on PC hardware than people running ARM! And for a number of card for old buses like ISA, EISA, and VESA, the e100 has not worked. These are old PCs converted to routers and firewalls, and for security should not be left without upgrades.Adrian Bunk wrote:This patch contains the overdue removal of the eepro100 driver.The hardware supported by this driver is still in use, thanks. It's probably easier to leave the eepro100 driver in than find anyone who wants to investigate why the other driver (e100? from memory) doesn't work with some cards. As I recall this was suggested over a year ago and it was decided to leave it in, all of the reasons for doing so still seem valid. There really doesn't seem to be a benefit, it's not like people are working night and day to support new cards for this chip.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@xxxxxxxxx>
please see the thread "Re: [PATCH] fix e100 rx path on ARM (was [PATCH] e100 rx: or s and el bits)" which is discussing a fix for this issue and currently being worked.
eepro100 will *still* be removed once e100 is fixed to support those devices.
Moreover, we now also have a fix for the e100 IPMI issues on some tyan boards (patch coming this week!). That hopefully solves all e100 issues that are still open.