bewan : most uglier driver
matthieu castet
castet.matthieu at free.fr
Mon Jul 18 14:44:22 EDT 2005
Hi,
Gilles Espinasse wrote:
>>
>>The pci driver seem to provide raw atm packet so I believe it could be
>>interresting to split usbatm into a raw atm driver and an usb part.
>>
>>But the firmware seem to be excecuted on the host cpu, for that they
>>need to include in their driver a libm !!!
>
>
> it may be the case of the pci driver but this can't apply to the usb model
> ;-)
it seem it is also true for the usb chip :
$objdump -x arch/i386/modem_ant_USB_LINUX.o | grep -w sin
00000000 *UND* 00000000 sin
00035103 R_386_PC32 sin
0003512c R_386_PC32 sin
0003535d R_386_PC32 sin
00035381 R_386_PC32 sin
> the pci flavor is a controller-less chip (meaning calculations are
made on
> the host computer)
>
So I think both usb and pci are controller-less chip.
Matthieu
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