[eepro100] pci 2.2

Donald Becker becker@scyld.com
Mon Apr 15 19:20:01 2002


On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, XH Xiao wrote:

> is there a PCI2.2 EEPRO100 card on the market(10/100M)?

The Compaq NC3133 and 3135 claim v2.2 compliance
  http://www.compaq.com/products/servers/networking/NC7132/

That likely means that there are other i82559 boards with v2.2 support.

> I checked all the documents and they only mentioned PCI, however I need a
> PCI2.2 or PCI Universal card on my motherboard.The slots are not PCI2.1
> back-compatible.

Huh?  Are you certain?  PCI v2.1 cards should work in v2.2 slots.  The
new features are mostly minor tweaks.  The 3.3V aux and SMBus support
are the interesting additions.

> I guess the eepro100 driver should be transparent for both PCI2.1 and
> PCI2.2...

Yes.

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