Re: Explora451 (Re: Question about pcn ethernet driver)

[Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost>]

I wrote:

> In article <20030421162512.GA10989%bseis.eis.cs.tu-bs.de@localhost>
> hannken%eis.cs.tu-bs.de@localhost wrote:
> 
> > But I still see no real need to attach the pcn to an artificial pci bus.
> > There is no real PCI bridge/host controller. Not inside the CPU
> > and not on the board.
> > It is a PCI capable device attached to the plain processor bus.
> 
> At least, pcn supports full features of 79c971, including MII.
> le (am79900) uses compatible mode with old LANCE.

I guess dreamcast also has similar (faked) PCI bridge for RTL8139
and it has PCI attachment (gapspci_pci.c etc.) only for if_rtk_pci.c.

Furthermore, if you rewrite fb_elb.c (S3 driver) for generic
PCI attachment, it could be shared with other ports.
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Izumi Tsutsui
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