Re: rtems if_dc ethernet driver

[Till Straumann <strauman@slac.stanford.edu>]

Eric Norum wrote:

> On Jun 10, 2005, at 1:23 PM, Daron Chabot wrote:
>
> > Hi Eric,
> >
> > I sent links to Joel S. for downloading my rtems port of the FreeBSD 
> > if_dc driver for Tulip "clone" cards and the vme-pci card driver as 
> > part of a mailing-list thread on a bug in the pc386 BSP build. 
> > However, he hasn't responded (no time, or interest, or whatever...).
> >
> > Seeing as how you're a "steering committee" member, I thought I would 
> > forward the links to you for the two driver ports, and you can do 
> > whatever you like with them (maybe even try them out ;-) ):
> >
> > http://nucleus.usask.ca/pub/daron/rtems_tulipclone.tar.gz
> > http://nucleus.usask.ca/pub/daron/rtems_sisdriver.tar.gz
>
> Thanks very much.  I've started the work to get these into the 
> official RTEMS distribution.
> In the meantime, how about posting a message to the EPICS 
> "tech-talk"   (tech-talk@aps.anl.gov) mailing list announcing these 
> drivers.  I expect that there will be considerable interest in them 
> (especially the SIS PCI/VME adapter).


FYI:
I recently ported if_pcn and if_ex. Package provides 'portability 
headers' and
instructions which hopefully can be used to help port other bsd drivers.

Till

> How's everything else going up there in the Great White North?