Date: Thu, 05 Mar 1998 08:49:49 +0000 From: freebsd@isvara.net To: FreeBSD Hackers <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>, FreeBSD Current <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Ethernet card driver Message-ID: <34FE672D.FA5A7F08@challenge.isvara.net> References: <199803042232.OAA22559@dingo.cdrom.com>
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Mike Smith wrote:
> > 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.
I can look at other code, but I thought it may be quicker if anyone knew the
information I was after (it would save digging through all the code), and
I like writing code given a few base specificaitions, rather than seeing how
someone elses' (potentally bogus) code.
Any takers?
Dan
_____________________________________
Daniel J Blueman
BSc Computation, UMIST, Manchester
Email: blue@challenge.isvara.net
Web: http://www.challenge.isvara.net/
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