I [being a chemical enginner and new to Kernel world ]
am having probelm in understanding a sample code
[skull] available with Book Linux device driver By
Alessandro Rubini. Could anyone guide me about this ?
mb(); [ What mb do ?. Is documentation present for
these functions ]
I got the programming aspect for this but did not get
the logic of it.
if ((oldval^newval) == 0xff) { /* we re-read our
change: it's ram */
printk(KERN_INFO "%lx: RAM\n", add);
continue;
}
if ((oldval^newval) != 0) { /* random bits changed:
it's empty */
printk(KERN_INFO "%lx: empty\n", add);
continue;
}
Please explain these lines and what is the
significance of Expansion ROM.
if ( (oldval == 0x55) && (readb (base + add + 1) ==
0xaa)) {
int size = 512 * readb (base + add + 2);
printk(KERN_INFO "%lx: Expansion ROM, %i bytes\n",
add, size);
add += (size & ~2048) - 2048; /* skip it */
continue;
}
printk(KERN_INFO "%lx: ", add);
for (i=0; i<5; i++) {
unsigned long radd = add + 57*(i+1); /* a
"random" value */
unsigned char val = readb (base + radd);
if (val && val != 0xFF && val != ((unsigned long)
radd&0xFF))
break;
}
printk("%s\n", i==5 ? "empty" : "ROM");
Thanks & Regards
Dinesh
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