From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Doug Beattie Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 18:12:21 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Driver development document Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org FWIW - It may be good, for someone in the real know, to document how to modify or write a driver source so it would detect whether it was running on ia32 or ia64 or even other type system and thereby be able to take advantage of larger memory models. >From what I understand, many of the current drivers go through copydown when used in the ia64 architecture and could be improved upon. My $0.02 worth of thoughts on this discussion. n0ano@indstorage.com wrote: > > Gururaj- > > The same document that explains how to write IA32 drivers :-) > > Seriously, all of the kernel interfaces you should need should > be the same between IA32 and IA64. It's amazing how many IA64 > drivers were created by just re-compiling the IA32 versiion with > no source code changes. > > I would recommend starting with the book `Linux Device Drivers' > by Rubini. It's kind of out of date (written for the 2.0 kernel) > but it gives you a good idea about the basics. > > On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 10:00:13AM -0700, Gururaj Ananthateerta wrote: > > I am newbie to Linux. > > Is there any document which explains howto write linux network drivers for > > ia-64.? > > > > Thanks > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Linux-IA64 mailing list > > Linux-IA64@linuxia64.org > > http://lists.linuxia64.org/lists/listinfo/linux-ia64 > > -- > Don Dugger > "Censeo Toto nos in Kansa esse decisse." - D. Gale > n0ano@indstorage.com > Ph: 303/652-0870x117 > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-IA64 mailing list > Linux-IA64@linuxia64.org > http://lists.linuxia64.org/lists/listinfo/linux-ia64 -- Douglas B. Beattie ------------------ Linux Test Architect - Caldera, Inc. dbb@caldera.com