Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 14:32:29 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: freebsd@isvara.net Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Ethernet card driver Message-ID: <199803042232.OAA22559@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 04 Mar 1998 12:25:01 GMT." <34FD481D.B3CCB346@challenge.isvara.net>
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> Hi,
> I'm about to write an ethernet card driver (3Com 3C905), utilizing
> all the features of the card (Bus master DMA transfers, etc).
Sounds good.
> What calls are required to interface to the kernel (I prefer not looking
> at other code, and writing from scratch) ?
>
> The functions {xxinit, xxattach, ...}have quite obvious names for what
> they should do, but I am unsure *exactly* what should be done were.
The best thing for you to do _is_ to look at other code, for
real-world, known-functional examples. The fxp driver is an excellent
place to start from your point of view - it's another PCI busmaster
ethernet card, with known good performance and excellent reliability.
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