On Sun, 21 Sep 1997 21:43:44 -0500 (CDT) 
 Ty Sarna <tsarna@endicor.com> wrote:

 > Not to mention the code to implement this stuff as a bus, which, it
 > seems to me, could even mean the binary would would grow rather than
 > shrink. 

You'll need _some_ kind of machinery to find the PHYs on the MII anyhow.
If you use an existing machine, you're talking less code than if you
reimplemented.

Also consider that several cards have the same PHYs (i.e. some Tulip
cards have the same PHYs as Intel cards) ... sharing that code is a
savings.

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