1. 22 Jan, 2013 2 commits
    • Paul Gortmaker's avatar
      drivers/net: delete intel 486 panther onboard ethernet support · 5205939d
      Paul Gortmaker authored
      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: default avatarPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
      5205939d
    • Paul Gortmaker's avatar
      drivers/net: delete 486 Apricot support · 6e07ba3e
      Paul Gortmaker authored
      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: default avatarPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
      6e07ba3e
  2. 21 Jan, 2013 38 commits