Re: [microblaze-uclinux] Ethernet MAC

[Yasushi SHOJI <yashi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Schunke,

At Thu, 22 Jan 2004 10:51:33 +0100,
Schunke Jan-Hendrik wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Does anyone know what LAN Chip (MAC/PHY) atmark-techno uses on their
> SUZAKU Spartan Board?

we have Davicom DM9000E on prototype boards.

you can download dm9000 linux device driver from 

http://www.davicom.com.tw/eng/download/Driver/driver_9000.htm

we know that dm9000 is not the best mac/phy chip. if you know some
other 100baseT chip for isa bus, let us know!

other choice might be using pci.

pros:
- you might have more chips to choose from

cons:
- host controler takes some gates in fpga

any other thoughts are always welcome ;)

> We have been using the xilinx ethernet mac with an external PHY but
> since the MAC is so big we are thinking about using an external chip. I
> ran across SMSC LAN91C111 which seems to be pretty promising but I would
> rather see if there is anything else that might already be supported or
> will be in the near future. So I thought it would be nice to know what
> is used on the SUZAKU board.

we thought about smsc.  It's more expensive than dm9k for us :(
--
       yashi
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