From: kilian@bobodyne.com (Alan Kilian)
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Solaris developer wants a Linux Mentor for drivers.
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 13:21:09 -0500 (CDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200410061821.i96IL9a07610@raceme.attbi.com> (raw)
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> From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
>
> Why not 2.6? No new Linux distros are shipping 2.4 kernels anymore...
Well, I down loaded and installed RedHat-9 5 weeks ago, and it
is a 2.4 kernel, so I thought that would be fine.
(See what a novice I am?)
> And a PCI bus driver?
> What kind of hardware is this?
> Is this a driver for a pci card, or a pci bus controller?
This is a driver for talking to my hardware which is a PCI bus card.
This card has 5 large FPGAs, SRAM and dram on it which is used to
accelerate bioinformatics search algorithms.
The card works under Sun Solaris and Windows/2000, and of course,
we would like to add Linux to the list.
Eventually, I'll need to support DMA to and from the card, but
I can get by for a while just doing single-dword I/O.
I just hacked in dev->bus->ops->read_dword(dev,1,&retval);
and I can read memory on the card! (Well, things don't crash anyway)
If this is absolutely the wrong way to do this, please let me know!
Note: I have no idea what the second parameter to read_dword() is!
-Alan
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- Alan Kilian <kilian(at)timelogic.com>
Director of Bioinformatics, TimeLogic Corporation 763-449-7622
next reply other threads:[~2004-10-06 18:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-06 18:21 Alan Kilian [this message]
2004-10-06 21:33 ` Greg KH
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2004-10-06 16:25 Alan Kilian
2004-10-06 17:10 ` Neil Horman
2004-10-06 17:22 ` Greg KH
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