From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 23 13:59:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mimer.webgiro.com (mimer.webgiro.com [212.209.29.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DEB514FD6; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 13:59:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from abial@webgiro.com) Received: by mimer.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 66) id 19EDC2DC09; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 22:59:02 +0100 (CET) Received: by mx.webgiro.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 662F87811; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 22:59:23 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx.webgiro.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B46410E10; Sun, 23 Jan 2000 22:59:23 +0100 (CET) Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2000 22:59:23 +0100 (CET) From: Andrzej Bialecki To: Bill Maniatty Cc: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai , FreeBSD-doc@FreeBSD.ORG, maniatty@cs.albany.edu, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Greg Lehey Subject: Re: Learning the FreeBSD Kernel In-Reply-To: <200001231648.LAA53658@cs.rpi.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 // 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