Like the other drivers that were in the ISA i825xx family, the ni52
was rather rare, not widely used, and hence perhaps not as reliable
as the more mainstream ISA drivers that were heavily used. Given
that, it is chosen for retirement at this time as well.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
This driver supported early to mid 1990's Zenith laptops, of the
2" thick variety. The driver was already dead 10+ years ago, but
we see this in the source:
----------------
/* 10/2002
[...]
Tested on a vintage Zenith Z-Note 433Lnp+. Probably broken on
anything else. Testers (and detailed bug reports) are welcome :-).
----------------
To clarify, a 433 translates into a 486 at 33MHz, and a system with
a default of 4MB RAM. I can't fault the noble effort to keep things
working a decade ago, but at this point in time, there is no valid
justification to continue carrying this driver along.
Note that there is no associated Space.c cleanup here since this
driver was using module_init to hook itself in.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
These old drivers should not be confused with the very common PCI
cards that are supported by e100.c -- these older 10Mbit ISA only
drivers were not as commonly used as some of the other ISA drivers,
simply due to hardware availability and pricing.
Given the rarity of the hardware, and the subsequent less extensive
use of the drivers, it makes sense to obsolete them at this point
in time, along with other rare/experimental ISA drivers.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
For those of us who were around in the early to mid 1990's, we
will remember that the i825xx ethernet support was not something
that was considered sufficiently vetted for 24/7 use.
Folks might be inclined to use *functional* ISA hardware on some
near expired P3 ISA machines for dedicated workhorse applications,
but the odds of using (and relying on) one of these old/experimental
drivers is essentially nil. So lets remove them.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
This driver was specific to a "professional workstation" line
of products from around 1993 that used the i82596 ethernet chip
as an on-board ethernet solution.
With a 486 processor, and the premium top of the line model maxing
out at a clock speed of 50MHz, we can safely retire this support.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
The Apricot was a 486 PC with 4MB RAM, and an on-board ethernet
via an intel i82596 hard-wired to i/o 0x300.
Those who were using linux in the 1990's will recall that the
i82596 driver was not one of the more stable or widely used
drivers of its day. Combine that with the extremely limited
resources of the platform, and it is truly time to expire the
support for this thing.
There are some old m68k targets who were also using this chip,
so rather than poll the m68k user base, we simply cut out the
x86/Apricot support here in this commit.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
The support for CONFIG_MCA is being removed, since the 20
year old hardware simply isn't capable of meeting today's
software demands on CPU and memory resources.
This commit removes any MCA specific net drivers, and removes
any MCA specific probe/support code from drivers that were
doing a dual ISA/MCA role.
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Move the drivers that use the i82586/i82593/i82596 chipsets into
drivers/net/ethernet/i825xx/ and make the necessary Kconfig and
Makefile changes. There were 4 3Com drivers which were initially
moved into 3com/, which now reside in i825xx since they all used
the i82586 chip.
CC: Philip Blundell <philb@gnu.org>
CC: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
CC: <aris@cathedrallabs.org>
CC: Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>
CC: Chris Beauregard <cpbeaure@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
CC: Richard Procter <rnp@paradise.net.nz>
CC: Andries Brouwer <aeb@cwi.nl>
CC: "M.Hipp" <hippm@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>
CC: Richard Hirst <richard@sleepie.demon.co.uk>
CC: Sam Creasey <sammy@oh.verio.com>
CC: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
