From owner-freebsd-current Thu Apr 6 8:18:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from finch-post-11.mail.demon.net (finch-post-11.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.39]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B0F637C069 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 08:18:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from n_hibma@calcaphon.com) Received: from calcaphon.demon.co.uk ([193.237.19.5] helo=bluebottle.qubesoft.com) by finch-post-11.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 12dE3E-0004Wj-0B; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 15:18:35 +0000 Received: from henny.qubesoft.com (henny.qubesoft.com [192.168.1.5]) by bluebottle.qubesoft.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA97319; Thu, 6 Apr 2000 16:21:09 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from n_hibma@calcaphon.com) Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 16:15:24 +0100 (BST) From: Nick Hibma X-Sender: n_hibma@localhost Reply-To: Nick Hibma To: "Eric D. Futch" Cc: Brooks Davis , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dev/vx/if_vx_pci.c 5.0-CURRENT In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You really want to look at other drivers, how they have been done. When you are done, send me the diff and I will have a look at it. It is fairly straightforward to convert from one to the other, once you have understood both concepts a bit. Nick On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Eric D. Futch wrote: > I figured it would take more work than I put into it. It was just a shot > in the dark. I think I have one of these cars in my Linux box at home > which I wouldn't mind ripping out and sticking in this machine. Let me > know if it's still worth me poking around in, or if you're going ahead > with the rewrite. I'm gonna keep playing with it out of my own > interest on newbusifying things. Maybe once I get a bigger clue of what > has to be done, I'll see about newbusifying other things. I always have > all this extra time on my hands :) > > -- > Eric Futch New York Connect.Net, Ltd. > efutch@nyct.net Technical Support Staff > http://www.nyct.net (212) 293-2620 > "Bringing New York The Internet Access It Deserves" > > > On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Brooks Davis wrote: > > >On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 08:43:30PM -0400, Eric D. Futch wrote: > > > >I think if you install the kernel and reboot it will likely explode in > >probe. It takes more then just new structs. The function signatures > >have changed as well. Take a look at rev 1.67 of src/sys/pci/if_fxp.c > >to see what newbus conversion takes. I'm taking a wack at a rewrite, > >but like you I don't have a card, so testing will be kinda trickey. > > > >-- Brooks > > > >-- > >Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > -- n_hibma@webweaving.org n_hibma@freebsd.org USB project http://www.etla.net/~n_hibma/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message