From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 10 00:17:11 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id AAA11583 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 10 May 1995 00:17:11 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA11577 for ; Wed, 10 May 1995 00:17:06 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id AAA07061; Wed, 10 May 1995 00:16:28 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199505100716.AAA07061@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: A question of downloading device drivers To: hm@altona.hamburg.com Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 00:16:28 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Hellmuth Michaelis" at May 10, 95 08:33:48 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1155 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 ? I suggest you go look in the 4.4BSD Lite sources, mine are off line right now and I don't like to do other folks leg work. The pointer is missing from the above quoted text, but in the original I did point to the 4.4 sources. > > > > 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 ? Terry will have to answer that, it was his assertion. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Custom computers for FreeBSD