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On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 12:06:48PM -0700, Tom Spindler wrote:
> > >I have ported Quinton Dolan's FreeBSD i386 port of the NVidia NForce
> > >ethernet driver to NetBSD (>=3D 2.99.17).=20
> >=20
> > Just out of curiosity: have you looked at the Linux `forcedeth'
> > driver? I haven't, but if it really works, and nVidia is sending the
> > developers diffs, then maybe the info there will enough to write a
> > full-source, BSD-licence *BSD driver?
>=20
> >From inspection, the only routines actually used by the FreeBSD
> driver from the (proprietary) nVidia object file are ADAPTER_OPEN,
> ADAPTER_ReadPhy, and ADAPTER_WritePhy; it could well be that

More than that.  ADAPTER_OPEN fills a structure of function pointers,
which are used for various things, like say, all the logic of the
interrupt handler.

--=20
Quentin Garnier - cube@cubidou.net - cube@NetBSD.org
"When I find the controls, I'll go where I like, I'll know where I want
to be, but maybe for now I'll stay right here on a silent sea."
KT Tunstall, Silent Sea, Eye to the Telescope, 2004.

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