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. > > -- > Donald Becker becker@scyld.com > Scyld Computing Corporation http://www.scyld.com > 410 Severn Ave. Suite 210 Scyld Beowulf cluster > system > Annapolis MD 21403 410-990-9993 > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? U2 on LAUNCH - Exclusive greatest hits videos http://launch.yahoo.com/u2 - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
