Subject: Re: Gigabit Ethernet
To: None <M.Drochner@fz-juelich.de>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/08/1999 10:26:57
Could you commit it to the kernel programming FAQ?
htdocs/Documentation/kernel/programming.html
(or put it in as anotehr file and link to it from the FAQ).
If you don't have time then you could email the latest copy
to www@netbsd.org and see if someone there has the time...
Thanks
David/absolute
-=- "cold nights, dark days..." -=-
On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Matthias Drochner wrote:
>
> cgd@netbsd.org said:
> > better way of putting it: DO NOT use BUS_SPACE_MAP_LINEAR, unless you
> > have absolutely no other choice.
>
> OK, I've changed the wording in my text, will send it out
> the next time someone offers to port a network driver:-)
>
> But since we have the .._LINEAR option, may it be for
> framebuffers only, we should provide a method to make
> a pointer from a tag/handle pair. (Which should fail
> for handles obtained w/o .._LINEAR.)
>
> First cut:
> caddr_t bus_space_vaddr(bus_space_tag_t, bus_space_handle_t);
> NULL on error.
>
> best regards
> Matthias
>
>