Delete comment from: Ken Shirriff's blog
I wrote and maintained the Intel 82586 "ie" and AMD Lance 7990 "le" ethernet drivers at Sun Microsystems back in the day.
Interesting semi-related story, Sun contracted NCR Fort Collins to reverse-engineer several vendor i/o chips including the AMD Lance to produce a pair of (bug-compatible) integrated ASICs. The project reduced costs and uncovered several interesting long lurking chip bugs.
neal
Oct 31, 2023, 7:19:51 PM
Posted to Reverse-engineering Ethernet backoff on the Intel 82586 network chip's die