[PATCH] 3c59x: support for ATI Radeon 9100 IGP
The following patch adds support for the 3Com networking core found in the ATI Radeon 9100 IGP southbridge used on boards like Asus P4R800-VM. The main point of this patch is using HAS_MII instead of HAS_NWAY for the definition of the board. All the previous trials since the end of last year used HAS_NWAY which disables the Tx part of the transceiver; using HAS_NWAY was the way all 3Com Cyclone and Tornado chips worked, as they had the transceiver integrated. The ATI solution has an external transceiver and I had to physically see the different chip on the board (the board was provided by ATI) to finally understand that it needs the HAS_MII definition... I'm still waiting for some docs from ATI to clarify if this is the correct way of handling this chip and if there are any differences w.r.t EEPROM handling, but as it appears to work and was also confirmed by other testers, I don't want to keep owners of such boards away from their networks :-) The textual identification was a bit hard to decide; it's called "3c920B-EMB-WNM" in the Windows .INF file that Asus provides for their boards. As this name was already used for PCI ID 9210, I added the paranthesis which specifies where this chip is found. The Scyld driver defines FEATURE_TORNADO to include HAS_NWAY. This board would then probably need to not be defined with FEATURE_TORNADO, but the same as in this patch. I would like to publicly thank Tyson Vickers for both ideas and patience during the last few weeks. He managed to get the driver working by randomly setting driver parameters :-) But then he contacted me and worked with me towards the solution. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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