On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 11:14:20AM +1000, Jonathan Gray wrote: [snip]
> For the longest time it was quite hard to get documentation out > of the networking side of Intel, but it recent years they > publish reasonably detailed manuals for 10/100 (fxp) and > 10/100/1000 (em) controllers and some PHYs. I have not > been able to find any 10GbE (ixgb) manuals and suspect > they don't publish them. Anything at all to do with > wireless there is no documentation from Intel at all also. > > fxp > http://www.intel.com/design/network/manuals/8255x_opensdm.htm > > em > http://www.intel.com/design/network/manuals/8254x_GBe_SDM.htm Funny you should mention this as I just grabbed some docs for the 82563EB (Intel Pro/1000). Device driver writing is an area I haven't yet explored, but the datasheet for the Pro/1000 looks pretty detailed and includes block diagrams, pin descriptions, signalling, timing specs, etc. Is this sort of document sufficient for device driver writers? I apologize if this is a stupid question, but I really would like to learn more about writing device drivers. -Damian
