[haiku-development] Re: 3com driver issue (Was: Terminal & VIA Rhine)
- From: "Hugo Santos" <hugosantos@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 16:45:47 +0100
> Yes, I'm aware of that and *perhaps* you can do that with the tulip driver.
> However, from my own impression and that from previous talks with Hugo and
> Travis that this is not recommended.
I don't quite recall these talks. I guess this multiple versions of
tulip chipset can be supported using the single or several FreeBSD
drivers available for it. The only issues i had in the past were
regarding interrupt handling.
> IMHO the driver covers too many different chipsets and in particular the
> admtek chipsets should be a separate driver. Whether it would be "easy" to
> use the freebsd code to do so was what I was getting at.
I would like a lot of things to be and work differently, but we have
to be pragmatic. If there's a possible path that allows us to support
the hardware, and re-using the know-how of a group of people that work
in the field and already spent a lot of effort to make sure the
hardware is supported, it seems the most positive thing to me. I would
rather concentrate our efforts on the components that are part of the
operating system architecture, such as the network stack itself, and
making sure that these work correctly, are full featured and follow
the same design rules as the rest of the system.
Hugo
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