Re: [microblaze-uclinux] general questions S-IIE

[Raj Nagarajan <raj.nagarajan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi John,

John Williams wrote:

>> By the way,  did somebody tried the MAC lite, is there a compatible 
>> driver?. Iam not sure if that one is free (sounds like it)
>
>
> I think the emaclite is polled, rather than interrupt driven?  This 
> could be supported in a device driver but it would be much less 
> efficient, and have a greater likelihood of dropping incoming packets. 
> For bare bones tcp/ip support with v low bandwidth connections, maybe 
> it would be appropriate.
>
The emaclite_v1_01a (EDK6.2 SP2) does have limited Interrupt support 
(interrupt generated only for receive and transmit condition).. But I 
think that the interface or registers are a little different that emac.. 
There are some sample examples in the EDK driver directory..

- Raj
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