Re: Why are there both de and dc [Was: Re: system freeze]

[Jason Wright <jason@thought.net>]

On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 11:24:21PM +0100, Thierry Deval wrote:
> Hi Aaron,
> 
> Sorry to jump on that, but as you are the dc maintainer, I ask...
> 
> Why is there still a de driver while dc seems to be the 'all Tulip compatible' driver ?

There are many true tulip variations and they are not completely compatible.
if_de addresses that, but the code is difficult to maintain.  if_dc supports
the clones of the 2114[23] chips and is a rewrite from scratch to support
them (a bit easier to modify and maintain).  dc contains no support for
the earlier 2104x chips and their idiosyncracies.

--Jason Wright