Re: Industry Pac drivers

[Andrew Johnson <anj@ast.cam.ac.uk>]

Bob Dalesio wrote:
> 
> It seems to me that there are two possible approaches to looking
> at the Industry Pac interfaces.
> 1) That each Carrier Board is the driver
>         Therefore a list of devices on the carrier board is kept
>         Driver reports are done from the carrier board perspective
> 2) Each different IP module board is the driver
>         A seperate report,init exists for each IP module supported
>         Carrier boards have no driver - but address mapping and interrupt handling routines
> 
> I am interested to hear how this was handled in the different drivers.

My drvIpac combines both of the above approaches - there are init &
report routines which are part of drvIpac and report all of the carrier
boards registered with it.  Any modules installed on a carrier are
listed by the drvIpac report function, but there is no direct link from
this to the relevent module driver, which will have its own drvET init &
report routines and uses the other services of drvIpac.

-- Andrew
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