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Alright, forget it. At 09:43 AM 2/2/2003 -0500, Mark Hahn wrote: > > Is anyone writing code to directly support features of the Intel 800 series > > chipsets? I'm using the 8xx chipset docs from Intel to gradually > > implement (hopefully) all the features of the 800 series of chipsets. > >such a broad statement is difficult. are you sure that most of the >features aren't already implemented? > > > The support of the I/O hubs and so on to get rid of relying on legacy > > PC/AT stuff will take a while. > >huh? IO hubs are for the most part transparent. what legacy do you >want to get rid of? just trivia like ide supporting its traditional >(standard) IO aperture? > > > I have a couple of questions because I'm new to kernel contributions. > > I'll be working in two main files, i8xx.h and i8xx.c, possibly i8xx.s too. > > In the early stages I may have a directory /i8xx and implementation of > > specific features will go into there in separate files. > >except that the chipset is not either a coherent set of devices >or noticably different from previous hardware. > > > One thing: should I maintain the consistency of using /dev files? Because > > there > > is a hardware random number generator in the 800 series chipsets, and I > >but the RNG has had kernel support for years. > > > am wondering whether I should export this feature as a set of functions or > > a /dev file. (Both??) > >afaik, no one cares whether a special-purpose and minor driver like that >would export a traditional static major/minor interface, >or a simple /proc one. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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