From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] IEEE 1394 support?
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Message-Id: <20010804020251.2BDA0199D7@mail.cse.psu.edu>
Date: Fri,  3 Aug 2001 22:02:31 -0400
Topicbox-Message-UUID: d95b5792-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025

On Fri Aug  3 21:46:22 EDT 2001, cross@math.psu.edu wrote:
> In article <20010803192416.7945D199D5@mail.cse.psu.edu> you write:
> >The 8255x chips have their faults too. For anything other than an
> >extremely specialised application the differences between the two
> >are not worth bothering about.
> 
> Really?  For some reason, I got the impression from the BSD people
> that there were perceptible problems with the Realtek chips.  Maybe
> not.  Still, it sort of sticks out like a sore thumb on an otherwise
> very nice piece of gear.
> 
> 	- Dan C.

As I've mentioned before, I started doing a driver for the Realtek chip
and gave up when I tried to supplement the meagre datasheet by looking at
the Linux and one of the *BSD drivers. Both drivers seemed to have fixes
for seemingly awful chip problems, but not the same ones.

If there was an 8255x on the Shuttle motherboard it might be the only Intel
chip on it.

--jim