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-This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of
-the GNU Public License, incorporated herein by reference.
-
-This is a tulip and clone driver for Etherboot. See the revision
-history in the tulip.c file for information on changes. This version
-of the driver incorporates changes from Bob Edwards and Paul Mackerras
-who cantributed changes to support the TRENDnet TE100-PCIA NIC which
-uses a genuine Intel 21143-PD chipset. There are also various code
-cleanups to make time-based activities more reliable.
-
-Of course you have to have all the usual Etherboot environment
-(bootp/dhcp/NFS) set up, and you need a Linux kernel with v0.91g
-(7.16.99) or later of the tulip.c driver compiled in to support some
-MX98715 based cards. That file is available at:
-
- http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/test/tulip.c
-
-NOTES
-
-I've tested this driver with a SOHOware Fast 10/100 Model SDA110A,
-a Linksys LNE100TX v2.0, and a Netgear FA310TX card, and it worked at
-both 10 and 100 mbits. Other cards based on the tulip family may work as
-well.
-
-These cards are about 20$US, are supported by Linux and now Etherboot,
-and being PCI, they auto-configure IRQ and IOADDR and auto-negotiate
-10/100 half/full duplex. It seems like a pretty good value compared to
-some of the pricier cards, and can lower the cost of building/adapting
-thin client workstations substantially while giving a considerable
-performance increase.
-
-On some PCI tulip clone chipsets (MX987x5, LC82C115, LC82C168) this driver
-lets the card choose the fastest speed it can negotiate with the peer
-device. On other cards, it chooses 10mbit half-duplex.
-
-I burned an AM27C256 (32KByte) EPROM with mx987x5.lzrom and it worked.
-According to the data sheet the MX98715A supports up to 64K (27C512)
-EPROMs,
-
-I've liberally commented the code and header files in the hope that it
-will help the next person who hacks the code or needs to support some
-tulip clone card, or wishes to add functionality.
-
-Anyway, please test this if you can on your tulip based card, and let
-me (mdc@etherboot.org) and the Etherboot-Discuss list
-(etherboot-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net) know how things go. I also
-would appreciate code review by people who program. I'm a strong
-believer in "another set of eyes".
-
-Regards,
-
-Marty Connor
-mdc@etherboot.org
-http://www.etherboot.org/