From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 10 6:26:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from wiprom2mx1.wipro.com (wiprom2mx1.wipro.com [203.197.164.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8751837B406 for ; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 06:26:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sumanth.vidyadhara@wipro.com) Received: from m2vwall2.wipro.com (m2vwall2.wipro.com [192.168.235.4]) by wiprom2mx1.wipro.com (8.10.2+Sun/8.11.3) with SMTP id f7AJ5OJ09153 for ; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 19:05:25 GMT Received: from sumanth ([192.168.205.201]) by platinum.mail.wipro.com (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GHUTA800.N6M for ; Fri, 10 Aug 2001 18:55:20 +0530 Message-ID: <01a401c121a1$57af1db0$c9cda8c0@sumanth> From: "sumanth vidyadhara" To: Subject: How to read tunables for Network driver at run time in freebsd 4.3 Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 19:05:38 +0530 Organization: Wipro Global R&D MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------InterScan_NT_MIME_Boundary" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------InterScan_NT_MIME_Boundary Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_01A1_01C121CF.71474E90" ------=_NextPart_000_01A1_01C121CF.71474E90 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi All, we are writing a nic driver for ethernet card in freebsd 4.3. I have a doubt on how do we get the configuration parameters like = setting the transmit descriptors,receive decriptors,also some driver = specific tunables at load time of the driver module. Is there any call where the driver module can read that and populate the = variables in the driver(like Space.c in sco or unixware). Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks, Sumanth ------=_NextPart_000_01A1_01C121CF.71474E90 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Hi All,

we are writing a nic driver = for =20 ethernet card in freebsd 4.3.

I have a doubt on how do we get = the=20 configuration parameters like setting the transmit descriptors,receive=20 decriptors,also some driver specific tunables at load time of the driver = module.

Is there any call where the driver = module can read=20 that and populate the variables

in the driver(like Space.c in sco or=20 unixware).

Any help is greatly = appreciated.

Thanks,

Sumanth

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