From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 10 00:04:05 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id AAA11425 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 10 May 1995 00:04:05 -0700 Received: from casparc.ppp.net (casparc.ppp.net [194.64.12.35]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id AAA11419 for ; Wed, 10 May 1995 00:04:01 -0700 Received: from ernie by casparc.ppp.net with uucp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0s95mU-000I2oC; Wed, 10 May 95 09:02 MET DST Received: by ernie.altona.hamburg.com (Smail3.1.29.0 #15) id m0s95LA-0002OfC; Wed, 10 May 95 08:33 WET DST Message-Id: From: hm@ernie.altona.hamburg.com (Hellmuth Michaelis) Subject: Re: A question of downloading device drivers To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 08:33:48 +0200 (MET DST) In-Reply-To: <199505100116.SAA05999@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at May 9, 95 06:16:50 pm Reply-To: hm@altona.hamburg.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 905 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >From the keyboard of Rodney W. Grimes: > > I think you mean the EXOS 205T boards. Down loading via ioctl() > > sucks (I know; I happen to be doing it for LKM). > > The EXOS 205T is an IBM/PC board, the EXOS board I am referring to > is a Unibus board. And I was wrong, it is the Interlan board, not > the Excelan board :-). Are the ioctl's necessary for downloading implemented in the ethernet driver's ioctl 'space' or does it use a separate character device just for downloading ? > > Really, it should be done with kernel level vnode I/O, just like the > > UFS disk quotas. Do you mean that the device driver code should access a file in the filesystem directly ? hellmuth (being in the middle of another device driver adventure) -- Hellmuth Michaelis hm@altona.hamburg.com Hamburg, Europe (A)bort, (R)etry, (I)nstall BSD ?