Date: Tue, 18 Apr 1995 08:32:49 -0500 (GMT-0500) From: "Serge A. Babkin" <babkin@hq.icb.chel.su> To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: support for Xircom PCMCIA Ethernet adapters? Message-ID: <199504181332.IAA00285@hq.icb.chel.su> In-Reply-To: <9504171621.AA08143@cs.weber.edu> from "Terry Lambert" at Apr 17, 95 10:21:05 am
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> > Do you mean that we can get hold of ODI drivers (binaries) and used them > > under FreeBSD? > > Yes, if: > > 1) They could be loaded into kernel memory. > > 2) Their external symbols are appropriately resolved. > > Both of these require knowledge of the binary file format. Server ODI (really NLM) drivers are known to be able to use polling. At least I saw one card developed in the State Technical University of Chelyabinsk that required very heavy polling (often with masked interrupts), but they wrote an NLM for it. Probably most cards have more normal NLMs but a polling-based ones are possible too and loading of such ones into kernel may be dangerous. Serge Babkin ! (babkin@hq.icb.chel.su) ! Headquarter of Joint Stock Commercial Bank "Chelindbank" ! Chelyabinsk, Russia
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