On 6/14/07, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thanks a ton, Greg. I was never able to find a consolidated site for many specs like this till now.
On 6/13/07, Bhanu Kalyan Chetlapalli <chbhanukalyan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 6/12/07, tejas khatiwala <socretez@xxxxxxxxx > wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I'm trying to develop device driver; specifically Network device
> drivers. I've done my reading which includes LDD3 (almost all chapters),
> bunch of articles at Linuxjournal, few driver codes in Linux source (
> 8139cp.c, loopback.c etc). The code flow makes sense to me but I really am
> not comfortable with the code which is hardware specific.
> > If I had a device driver with its manufacturer's specification,
> it would be helpful for me to understand various design issues for a
> particular hardware; at least it will provide me an example. I couldn't find
> any. Can anybody help? Thanks in advance.
>
> I think the Realtek 8139 chipset's HW specification is open. I remember it
> was some PDF file that I got off google. You can try that I guess
>
http://gkernel.sourceforge.net/specs/realtek/
There are several others in the specs directory. I think everything
there is open.
Thanks a ton, Greg. I was never able to find a consolidated site for many specs like this till now.
FYI: Not everything in the specs folder is a nic spec, but many of them are.
Greg
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