Subject: Re: A new wm driver
To: Pascal Renauld <prenauld@nssolutions.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/17/2003 12:14:12
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On Dec 17, 2003, at 11:40 AM, Pascal Renauld wrote:
> if_wm_hw.c and if_wm_hw.h are dedicated to tuning and represent around
> 7100 lines. I think it speaks for itself. The *generic* part of the
> driver is around 3700 lines.
No, those parts of the driver are not dedicated to *tuning*. A large
part of that "hw" layer is basic access to the hw functions of the
chip, and also doing things like interacting with the PHY (which NetBSD
has a shared source module for, that is also used by many other
Ethernet drivers).
-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
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