On Mon, 23 Mar 2015 18:51:51 +0800, Freeman Zhang said:
> I'm writing a net device driver for my final project in college. But the
> half-finished device doesn't support interrupt yet(those hardware guys...)
>
> So I'm wondering if there is some way to poll the device for its status
> and events.
As a realistic datapoint - if it still doesn't support interrupts, the *rest*
of it is probably still so buggy that trying to write a driver isn't worth
the effort.
It's doable if you are working with a group of talented and experienced
engineers - but if the hardware is also being done as a final project,
you're in for naught but misery.
You *could* do something like this:
while (waiting) {
status = read_status_bits(your_device);
if (status & DATA_AVAIL_MASK) break;
msleep(100);
}
But having seen enough student hardware design projects in my life, I estimate
that if it still can't signal interrupts, the status bits probably aren't valid
either. (Think about it - a bog-simple implementation of interrupts would be
to just feed a transition-high on the appropriate status bit to the interrupt
pin, and use a read from the chip to clear the pin).
Good luck - I suspect you're going to need it....
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