Is it possible if I used pci-skeleton.c still as the
base code even if there is really no existing PCI
bus hardware?
Could you suggest what to do then?
Thank you very much. I really appreciate your help.
melrez tan
Donalld Becker <becker@scyld.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Nov 2002, Melrez Tan wrote:
>
> > I have again another sets of questions.
> > 1.) Is the network layer and protocol layer
> hardware
> > independent?
>
> The protocol layer is. I'm not certain what you
> mean by the "network
> layer".
>
> > 2.) Our hardware has its own way of handling the
> > receive and transmit buffers, What would be the
> role
> > then of skbuff.h?
>
> The queue and protocol layers use skbuffs. Your
> driver must transmit
> from and receive into (perhaps directly, or copy
> into) skbuffs.
>
> > 3.) Our hardware does not implement PCI bus. You
> are
> > recommending me to use PCI-skeleton.c, DO I have
> other
> > option?
>
> Yes, but that's still the best base to start from.
>
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