Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 08:33:48 +0200 (MET DST) From: hm@ernie.altona.hamburg.com (Hellmuth Michaelis) To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: A question of downloading device drivers Message-ID: <m0s95LA-0002OfC@ernie.altona.hamburg.com> In-Reply-To: <199505100116.SAA05999@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at May 9, 95 06:16:50 pm
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>From the keyboard of Rodney W. Grimes:
> > I think you mean the EXOS 205T boards. Down loading via ioctl()
> > sucks (I know; I happen to be doing it for LKM).
>
> The EXOS 205T is an IBM/PC board, the EXOS board I am referring to
> is a Unibus board. And I was wrong, it is the Interlan board, not
> the Excelan board :-).
Are the ioctl's necessary for downloading implemented in the ethernet
driver's ioctl 'space' or does it use a separate character device just
for downloading ?
> > Really, it should be done with kernel level vnode I/O, just like the
> > UFS disk quotas.
Do you mean that the device driver code should access a file in the
filesystem directly ?
hellmuth (being in the middle of another device driver adventure)
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Hellmuth Michaelis hm@altona.hamburg.com Hamburg, Europe
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