Re: Solaris developer wants a Linux Mentor for drivers.

[Alan Kilian]

Forwarded message:
> From: Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Why not 2.6?  No new Linux distros are shipping 2.4 kernels anymore...

  Well, I down loaded and installed RedHat-9 5 weeks ago, and it
  is a 2.4 kernel, so I thought that would be fine.
  (See what a novice I am?)

> And a PCI bus driver?  
> What kind of hardware is this?  
> Is this a driver for a pci card, or a pci bus controller?

  This is a driver for talking to my hardware which is a PCI bus card.

  This card has 5 large FPGAs, SRAM and dram on it which is used to
  accelerate bioinformatics search algorithms.

  The card works under Sun Solaris and Windows/2000, and of course,
  we would like to add Linux to the list.

  Eventually, I'll need to support DMA to and from the card, but
  I can get by for a while just doing single-dword I/O.

  

  I just hacked in dev->bus->ops->read_dword(dev,1,&retval);
  and I can read memory on the card! (Well, things don't crash anyway)

  If this is absolutely the wrong way to do this, please let me know!

  Note: I have no idea what the second parameter to read_dword() is!

                            -Alan

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- Alan Kilian <kilian(at)timelogic.com> 
Director of Bioinformatics, TimeLogic Corporation 763-449-7622
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