This is an area I know all too well, after being author of several 8390
drivers, and maintainer of all 8390 drivers during a large part of their
active lifecycle.
To that end, I can say this with a reasonable degree of confidence.
The drivers deleted here represent the earliest (as in early 1990)
hardware and/or rare hardware. The remaining hardware not deleted
here is the more modern/sane of the lot, with ISA-PnP and jumperless
"soft configuration" like the wd and smc cards had.
The original ne2000 driver (ne.c) gets a pass at this time since
AT/LANTIC based cards that could be both ne2000 or wd-like (with
shared memory) and with jumperless configuration were made in the
mid to late 1990's, and performed reasonably well for their era.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
The NS8390 chip was essentially the 1st widespread PC ethernet
chip, starting its life on 8 bit ISA cards in the late 1980s.
Even with better technologies available (bus mastering etc)
the 8390 managed to get used on a few rare EISA cards in the
early to mid 1990s.
The EISA bus in the x86 world was largely confined to systems
ranging from 486 to 586 (essentially 200MHz or lower, and less
than 100MB RAM) -- i.e. machines unlikely to be still in service,
and even less likely to be running a 3.9+ kernel.
On top of that, only one of the five really ever was considered
non-experimental; the smc-ultra32 was the one -- since it was
largely just an EISA version of the popular smc-ultra ISA card.
All the others had such a tiny user base that they simply never
could be considered anything more than experimental.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
We threw away the microchannel support, but the removal wasn't
completely trivial since there was namespace overlap with the
machine check support, and hence some orphaned dependencies
survived the deletion. This attempts to sweep those up and
send them to the bit-bucket.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
A number of older ColdFire CPU based boards use NS8390 based network
controllers. Most use the Davicom 9008F or the UMC 9008F. This driver
provides the support code to get these devices working on these platforms.
Generally the NS8390 based eth device is direct connected via the general
purpose bus of the ColdFire CPU. So its addressing and interrupt setup is
fixed on each of the different platforms (classic platform setup).
This driver is based on the other drivers/net/ethernet/8390 drivers, and
includes the lib8390.c code. It uses the existing definitions of the
board NS8390 device addresses, interrupts and access types from the
arch/m68k/include/asm/mcf8390.h, but moves the IO access functions into
the driver code and out of that header.
Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The support for CONFIG_MCA is being removed, since the 20
year old hardware simply isn't capable of meeting today's
software demands on CPU and memory resources.
This commit removes any MCA specific net drivers, and removes
any MCA specific probe/support code from drivers that were
doing a dual ISA/MCA role.
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Moves the drivers for the National Semi-conductor 8390 chipset into
drivers/net/ethernet/8390/ and the necessary Kconfig and Makefile
changes.
CC: Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>
CC: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
CC: Alain Malek <alain.malek@cryogen.com>
CC: Peter De Schrijver <p2@mind.be>
CC: "David Huggins-Daines" <dhd@debian.org>
CC: Wim Dumon <wimpie@kotnet.org>
CC: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
CC: David Hinds <dahinds@users.sourceforge.net>
CC: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Paul Gortmaker