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Date:      Sun, 23 Jan 2000 22:59:23 +0100 (CET)
From:      Andrzej Bialecki <abial@webgiro.com>
To:        Bill Maniatty <maniattb@cs.rpi.edu>
Cc:        Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai <asmodai@wxs.nl>, FreeBSD-doc@FreeBSD.ORG, maniatty@cs.albany.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
Subject:   Re: Learning the FreeBSD Kernel 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.20.0001232255530.43769-100000@mx.webgiro.com>
In-Reply-To: <200001231648.LAA53658@cs.rpi.edu>

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On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Bill Maniatty wrote:

> > Definately not an ethernet card. *g*
> > Seems no-one can keep up with Bill Paul in that aspect. =)
> 
> We probably could not compete :-), but we are interested in ethernet
> card drivers (at some point) and would like to learn.
>  
> > You could try usb devices and contact Nick Hibma for his expertise on
> > that area.
> 
> How mature is the USB driver technology?  If it is pretty preliminary
> we may wish to visit that later.  Please recall that we are on a learning
> curve here.

Another thing to consider (AFAIU the issues here, of course :-) is whether
to choose a device that sits directly on one of standard buses (like PCI
or ISA), or has intermediate bus abstraction layer in between (like
e.g. ppbus or usb). I would assume that learning the latter would take
more time.

Andrzej Bialecki

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