On Wed, 27 Jan 1999 14:01:15 -0500 (EST) 
 Jason Wright <jason@thought.net> wrote:

 > But, 'qec+be's have a connector for hooking up external PHYs.  I think
 > that if an external phy were hooked up to the card, and the right bits
 > were twiddled on the MAC, then it would be possible to do full duplex
 > using this board.  (ie. BE_BR_TXCFG_FULLDPLX from bereg.h).  (I have no
 > proof one way or the other, though).

Yah, providing the PHY is plugged in when you boot, so that
autoconfiguration finds it.

Might be an interesting excersise to add the ability to "kick" the probing
of PHYs in case they're swapped.

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>