Re: Porting a device driver from NetBSD to FreeBSD

2002-02-18 Thread Terry Lambert
Andy Sporner wrote: [ ... ] At this point, lack of information about the device makes it hard to offer advice. I can only offer the following observartions, and the rest is up to you: o You indicated that the Realtek interface has ovrlapping memory, if probed and attached. Maybe

Re: Porting a device driver from NetBSD to FreeBSD

2002-02-18 Thread Andy Sporner
Hi Terry (and other snoopers--readers :-)) > > I guess I should ask you if this is an SMP system and/or > is the kernel compiled for SMP, or ist it UP (this is a > two by two marix, so the correct answer is not "yes/no" 8-)). Monoproc machine. Standard (OUT of box config file -- GENERIC). Sorry

Re: Porting a device driver from NetBSD to FreeBSD

2002-02-18 Thread Terry Lambert
Andy Sporner wrote: > Yes and no. It *IS* an ethernet device--that's clear, but it has it's > own stack (more or less) optimized for doing policy based routing, so > it doesn't connect to the TCP/IP stack. The application is traffic > management. We are expecting very high bandwidth traffic man

Re: Porting a device driver from NetBSD to FreeBSD

2002-02-18 Thread Andy Sporner
Thanks Terry! > > Here is the sum total of my clue-fu on this problem; it is > mostly supposition, because of incomplete information. Bill > Pauls kung-fu in ethernet drivers is much greater than > anyone else's... it beats the heck out of my cowering piglet > style. ;-). The best advice *anyo

Re: Porting a device driver from NetBSD to FreeBSD

2002-02-16 Thread Terry Lambert
Andy Sporner wrote: [...] Here is the sum total of my clue-fu on this problem; it is mostly supposition, because of incomplete information. Bill Pauls kung-fu in ethernet drivers is much greater than anyone else's... it beats the heck out of my cowering piglet style. ;-). The best advice *anyo

Re: Porting a device driver from NetBSD to FreeBSD

2002-02-13 Thread Michael Smith
> Hello Everyone, > > I have been trying to port a driver I had written on NetBSD to FreeBSD. > On NetBSD the driver functions without incident, On FreeBSD, after a time > the whole system locks up. Sounds like resource starvation of some sort. > I hope somebody can give me a hint of where I