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From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert)
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Subject: Re: Help! 3C589 driver on -current!
To: hosokawa@mt.cs.keio.ac.jp (HOSOKAWA Tatsumi)
Date: Thu, 16 Feb 95 11:14:18 MST
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> I struggled with this problem today, but I couldn't fix this bug.
> 
> Observed by etherfind, ARP packet seems to be correctly sent by first
> ifconfig, and zpintr() is invoked by packet arrivals by ping.  But it
> could not reply to these ping messages.

There was a recent suggested change to raw packet interface packet type
byte ordering.  This probably wouldn't affect you, but you may want to
look just in case.


We need a document of "kernel exported API's for use by device driver
writers".

For instance, all of the VM interfaces we plan to be keeping around
cross platform for all of time now that the cache unification has
taken place, the vnode cache interface (like the SVR4 DNLC documented
in "The Magic Garden Explained") and vn_ based file I/O and how to
do it in the kernel for things like quota files, etc..

Entry points for protocol family insertion and kernel use of the
routing code and console driver and other error logging interfaces
would also be nice.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@cs.weber.edu
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