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[SAeeD]

Well thank you first.

I've came to some understandings that may be useful to others:

First, in order to check my Ethernet controller family, I used "lspci"
command in Fedora 17:
09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme
*BCM5755M*Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)
The bolded text shows mine.

Second, in order to see FreeBSD Ethernet drivers that have been ported to
RTEMS, I used the comments in the file:
libbsdport <http://git.rtems.org/libbsdport/>/bsd_eth_drivers/libbsdport/
libbsdport_api.h<http://git.rtems.org/libbsdport/tree/bsd_eth_drivers/libbsdport/libbsdport_api.h>

Now I come up with one question:
I'm going to use "Broadcom BCM57xx PCI" family as it suits my case. The
driver for this family is placed in the folder "if_bge".
I searched if_bge.c and did not find a function with "static int (struct
rtems_bsdnet_ifconfig*, int)" signature to introduce it as my
"CONFIGURE_NETWORK_DRIVER_ATTACH" function.
I mean for other drivers like DEC21140 there is a function like "int
rtems_dec21140_driver_attach (struct rtems_bsdnet_ifconfig *config, int
attach)" and a name like "ne1" but for BGE, I did not find similiar
function and name. So how I'm supposed to use them as Ethernet driver in my
application? How may I configure my application in order to use them?

Thanks,
SAeeD

On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 6:00 AM, Chris Johns <chrisj at rtems.org> wrote:

> SAeeD wrote:
>
>>     There is also some more in the libsdports repo ....
>>
>>     http://git.rtems.org/**libbsdport/ <http://git.rtems.org/libbsdport/>
>>
>> How I'm supposed to tell my application to use those drivers? For DEC
>> and NE and WD was as easy as changing the first entry in the
>> "rtems_bsdnet_ifconfig" structure.
>>
>
> It is an external library you link your application to. To build first
> build and install the BSP you are using (see the --with-rtems-top setting).
> In my case I use this library with the pc586 BSP. Then ....
>
>  $ /Users/chris/Development/**rtems/src/libbsdport/configure \
>     --host=i386-rtems4.10 \
>     --with-rtems-top=/Users/chris/**Development/rtems/build/4.10 \
>     --prefix=/Users/chris/**Development/rtems/build/4.10 \
>     --enable-std-rtems-installdirs --enable-maintainer-mode \
>     --enable-rtemsbsp=pc586
>  $ make all install
>
> I use this in the RTL test program. The specific source to set up and use
> the library can be found here ...
>
>  http://git.rtems.org/chrisj/**rtl.git/tree/init.c#n76<http://git.rtems.org/chrisj/rtl.git/tree/init.c#n76>
>
>
>  BTW, is it possible that I use those
>> drivers with RTEMS 4.10.2 tarball or I must use HEAD branch in order to
>> use them? Please enlighten me a little more. :)
>>
>
> I have not used 4.10.x recently how-ever I feel it should work because
> there has been no major changes in the network area on head.
>
> Chris
>
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