[vortex] Tornado initialization

[Fernando Barreto]

Hi,

I study science computing at Federal University of Santa Catarina
- Brazil. I'm researching in a project to use a NIC 3Com 3c95c (Tornado)
in a high speed comunication. So, I'm having some problens to discover
what part of your code (3c95x.c) from kernel 2.4.18 is important for
the tornado's initialization. Could you inform to us what is the essential
part of code that sets the NIC to work?

Thanks for your attention,

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Fernando Barreto Mestre em Ciencia da Computacao
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[Bogdan Costescu]

On Sun, 11 Aug 2002, Fernando Barreto wrote:

> I study science computing at Federal University of Santa Catarina
> - Brazil. I'm researching in a project to use a NIC 3Com 3c95c (Tornado)
> in a high speed comunication. So, I'm having some problens to discover
> what part of your code (3c95x.c) from kernel 2.4.18 is important for
> the tornado's initialization. Could you inform to us what is the essential
> part of code that sets the NIC to work?

Hardware initialization is done in vortex_up() mainly. But
re-initialization after error is in vortex_error() or in
vortex_tx_timeout() and media-related in vortex_timer().

I suggest that you get the free documentation from 3Com's site. I find it
quite well written.

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Bogdan Costescu

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