From: "Jiri Slaby" <lnx4us@gmail.com>
To: heavenscape <masonduan1@sina.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to port a legacy device driver to a new Linux platform?
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 11:31:24 +0159 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3888a5cd0607300232o400c76d8gcd006b7f45ecc71@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5535638.post@talk.nabble.com>
On 7/28/06, heavenscape (sent by Nabble.com) <lists@nabble.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a legacy PCI fiber card running under Red Hat Linux 7.3, and I have
> all the source code of its driver developped by others. Please see the
> attachment.
>
> http://www.nabble.com/user-files/135/cyport71.tar cyport71.tar
>
> It is working fine right now. But I am going to upgrade my OS to Rea Hat
> Enterprise Linux AS 4, I am not sure how can I recompile and install this
> fiber card in the new OS. I am new to Linux and have minimal experience in
> programming Linux. But this card is very important to me.
>
> Any suggestion is highly appreciated!! Thanks!!
You may do rework of the driver and post it: see Documentation/HOWTO,
especially Documentation/SubmittingDrivers.
It won't be so hard, if you don't feel cool enough, I may try my best,
but tell me the source (cvs?) address of the drivers. What kind of
device is that?
regards,
--
<a href="http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/">Jiri Slaby</a>
faculty of informatics, masaryk university, brno, cz
e-mail: jirislaby gmail com, gpg pubkey fingerprint:
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