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 // <abial@webgiro.com> WebGiro AB, Sweden (http://www.webgiro.com) // ------------------------------------------------------------------- // ------ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve. http://www.freebsd.org -------- // --- Small & Embedded FreeBSD: http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ ---- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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