Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Feb 2002 01:18:23 +0100 | From | Thomas Langås <> | Subject | Re: Broadcom 5700/5701 Gigabit Ethernet Adapters |
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David S. Miller: > No, we've been reverse engineering the hardware using the sources of > Broadcom's driver. This is why the work is taking so long.
Ok, I've downloaded the driver, and tried building as a modue to a 2.4.17-kernel. It segfaulted when I tried loading it (since it says it's not done, I wasn't expecting it to work :). However, my question is; how do you guys develope network drivers, for instance? I mean, in order to test a new version (after the first has segfaulted), I need to reboot.
I've got the broadcom-version dated 2th january 2002, and wanted to try and implement small parts of missing code, mostly for educational purposes to learn more about kernel programming.
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