From: Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>
To: 9fans mailing list <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Am79c960 (Was Am97c960 etc.)
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 13:15:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020108131538.U6270@cackle.proxima.alt.za> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020107145131.H6270@cackle.proxima.alt.za>; from Lucio De Re on Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 02:51:31PM +0200
On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 02:51:31PM +0200, Lucio De Re wrote:
>
> First of all, hearty thanks to forsyth for his help getting a device
> driver going for the PCnet-ISA controller.
>
I copied more than my fair share out of Charles' efforts. More
thanks :-)
> I have only played with the boot/pc version, and I only know that it
> initialises without panic, but I'm a lot more confident of being able
> to use it now.
>
I have managed to load and (partially) boot an Inferno kernel (was the
speediest thing to do - tested BOOTP and TFTP in one operation) with
the driver, so I think I have the rough idea right. It needs a lot of
cleaning p, but should be ready today after some cleaning up.
> I did go to a lot of trouble to make "etherpcnet.c" as general as
> possible, but I can only test it for the 97c960 as I have no access to
> any other controller (I suppose I can try the VMware emulation, but
> that strikes me as asking for trouble). If anyone is interested, I'll
> clean up the code a bit and then post the driver on my web site.
>
Really got hooked on that 97c didn't I? It's a 79c960 I'm working
with. I can't test the other controllers, but guinea pigs and/or
sample hardware are encouraged to come forth.
> I really would like some review (it's a merge of a driver from forsyth
> and the release version) before I tackle the 9/pc alternative and then
> have to duplicate all the error corrections :-) Mail me if you'd
> prefer a copy by e-mail.
>
Well, seeing as I've reached a milestone, I'll go ahead with the
second phase of a 9/pc driver and I don't think I'll need any bounce
buffers or DMA complications at this stage. Maybe once the tidying
up is underway I'll try to generalise the DMA setup operation: at
least detect conflicts.
++L
prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-08 11:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-07 12:51 [9fans] Am97c960 etc Lucio De Re
2002-01-08 11:15 ` Lucio De Re [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20020108131538.U6270@cackle.proxima.alt.za \
--to=lucio@proxima.alt.za \
--cc=9fans@cse.psu.edu \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).