Re: The Linux Staging tree, what it is and is not.

[Daniel Krüger]

david@xxxxxxx schrieb:
> On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > > information of what to copy to where comes from the object dictionary.
> > > But it is possible to extract this information from the objdict and pass
> > > it via generic structures (e.g. something like IO vectors) to the PDO
> > > module in kernel. The information flow of the configuration data is
> > > one-way only, from userspace to kernel. This is what I plan to implement
> > > in openPOWERLINK, because the copy information can also be passed to a
> > > special hardware like a DMA controller.
> >
> > Ok so your hardware in fact really is oriented around an mmap type
> > interface ?
>
> what I understand from this thread is that the hardware is a standard 
> ethernet card.

It may be a standard Ethernet controller. But it could also be a 
controller with a special hardware acceleration.

cu,
  Daniel

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