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Subject: Re: Things to tackle in the MIPS space?
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On Sep 12, 2011, at 2:55 PM, Juli Mallett wrote:
>> 2) Ehternet support. Also apparently broken, although I know little =
about ENET and PHYs and such. We do  have people here who do though.
>=20
> Um, what happened to Ethernet support?  It worked and worked quite
> well the last time I touched it.  Performance could be better, but
> improving performance of the Ethernet driver would probably be a
> pretty nasty way to learn about how Ethernet drivers work.  (Namely
> because it's easy to make the performance much better for a single
> case and a lot worse for every other one.)  You shouldn't need to know
> anything much about how the PHYs work, though.

My experience has been mixed.  Some boards work great w/o any tweaking =
at all.  Others don't work at all.  Sadly, I've sent back the board I =
have that worked and just have one that doesn't work.

Warner