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On Tuesday, May 19, 2015 at 9:57:09 AM UTC+2, q.kontinuum wrote:

> Hehe :-) I wrote an ethernet-driver for a Z80 (don't ask...) ~14 years
> ago. I feel your pain. But that time I did read the specs, and much 
> good did it to me. In the end I had to get a logic analyzer to check
> what was going on on the bus because the chip didn't abide the specs.
> 

what specs. There were no specs !
Just do a soft reset to load the parameters you just wrote, monkeys. this was the phy chip.

> >
> > file:///usr/gnat/share/doc/gnat/html/gnat_rm_2.html#SEC6 (on my machine)
> 
> Ok, I guess I should be able to find this somewhere. Although 
> a quick google search did not show a relevant package.
> 

GNAT Reference Manual - GCC - GNU
https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gnat_rm/
This manual contains useful information in writing programs using the GNAT compiler. It includes information on implementation dependent characteristics of ...

cheers,
j.