From owner-freebsd-small Mon Apr 16 11: 7:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DB6C37B43C for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 11:07:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Received: from mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (cdillon@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us [207.160.214.1]) by mail.wolves.k12.mo.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA01904; Mon, 16 Apr 2001 13:07:04 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us) Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 13:07:04 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon To: Soren Kristensen Cc: Subject: Re: The ultimate board! In-Reply-To: <3AD8BADA.9F521991@soekris.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 14 Apr 2001, Soren Kristensen wrote: > Hi Chris, > > I'm the hardware designer, so let me comments on your comments :-) > > Chris Dillon wrote: > > > > [...snip...] > > > sis0: port 0xe000-0xe0ff mem 0xa0000000-0xa0000ff > > > > Ewww... Is this a good enough Ethernet chipset? I've not had good > > luck with any of SiS's stuff. They seem to make, for lack of a nicer > > word, crap. > > > > This is not a SIS chip, but a National Semiconductor chip. They > have made ethernet chips for the last 20 years. I don't trust SIS > either, but I belive that the DP83815 is natsemi quality. I also > don't know why it's so close to the SIS chip, but natsemi probably > bought the MAC core design from SIS.... The design of the core itself is what I'm wondering about. Anybody can manufacture a quality chip these days, but it takes talent to design one. > The only limit on the DP83815 is the requirement for 32 bit > alligned RX buffers. Otherwise it has all the good features and is > cheap, $7 in 1K quantity. Not bad. But what is the cost of some of the better chips such as the DEC/Intel 21143 or even an Intel 8255x at that quantity? -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For IA32 and Alpha architectures. IA64, PPC, and ARM under development. http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message