Subject: Re: Newbie questions about drivers
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 03/18/2006 12:27:35
In message <20060318175912.GN307@gallia.cubidou.net>, Quentin Garnier writes:
>USB code does it this way to have common source with other BSDs. Plain
>NetBSD drivers use CFATTACH_DECL().
Oh! That makes sense.
>Look in $ARCH/conf/majors.$ARCH and conf/majors.
That explains everything. :)
Okay, so. I'm trying to develop a sane approach to NAND flash devices.
It looks like there's some parts of this that need to be provided by some
other device, so I'm tentatively inventing a new device, flash, and flash
devices attach at other devices; for instance, on the TAMS, I'm doing
tflash* at pbus?
flash* at tflash?
The intermediate device works a little like some of the IDE controller code
does; it sets up bits and provides hooks that a more generic driver (the
flash driver) can call.
So I'd just do
device-major flash char XXX block YYY flash
in the majors file, then?
-s