Linux-2.6.12-rc2

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!

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+The 3Com Etherlink Plus (3c505) driver.
+
+This driver now uses DMA.  There is currently no support for PIO operation.
+The default DMA channel is 6; this is _not_ autoprobed, so you must
+make sure you configure it correctly.  If loading the driver as a
+module, you can do this with "modprobe 3c505 dma=n".  If the driver is
+linked statically into the kernel, you must either use an "ether="
+statement on the command line, or change the definition of ELP_DMA in 3c505.h.
+
+The driver will warn you if it has to fall back on the compiled in
+default DMA channel. 
+
+If no base address is given at boot time, the driver will autoprobe
+ports 0x300, 0x280 and 0x310 (in that order).  If no IRQ is given, the driver
+will try to probe for it.
+
+The driver can be used as a loadable module.  See net-modules.txt for details
+of the parameters it can take.  
+
+Theoretically, one instance of the driver can now run multiple cards,
+in the standard way (when loading a module, say "modprobe 3c505
+io=0x300,0x340 irq=10,11 dma=6,7" or whatever).  I have not tested
+this, though.
+
+The driver may now support revision 2 hardware; the dependency on
+being able to read the host control register has been removed.  This
+is also untested, since I don't have a suitable card.
+
+Known problems:
+ I still see "DMA upload timed out" messages from time to time.  These
+seem to be fairly non-fatal though.
+ The card is old and slow.
+
+To do:
+ Improve probe/setup code
+ Test multicast and promiscuous operation
+
+Authors:
+ The driver is mainly written by Craig Southeren, email
+ <craigs@ineluki.apana.org.au>.
+ Parts of the driver (adapting the driver to 1.1.4+ kernels,
+ IRQ/address detection, some changes) and this README by
+ Juha Laiho <jlaiho@ichaos.nullnet.fi>.
+ DMA mode, more fixes, etc, by Philip Blundell <pjb27@cam.ac.uk>
+ Multicard support, Software configurable DMA, etc., by
+ Christopher Collins <ccollins@pcug.org.au>