AW: write a network driver

[Jan.Sommer at dlr.de]

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: users [mailto:users-bounces at rtems.org] Im Auftrag von Sebastian Huber
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 11. März 2020 09:17
> An: mojtaba nadi; users at rtems.org
> Betreff: Re: write a network driver
> 
> Hello Mojtaba,
> 
> On 11/03/2020 06:44, mojtaba nadi wrote:
> > hello,
> > I'm going to write a network driver for my mac ip core that I made in
> > vivado for zedboard.
> > I can write and read from it with using registers but now I want to
> > use socket programming to access the mac. I understand the first step
> > is adding a ifconfig name for my mac but I couldn't do this with using
> > libbsd.
> > Am I doing something wrong?
> > How can I write a network driver for my mac?
> 
> the libbsd is a port of the network stack from FreeBSD to RTEMS. You can
> use all the documentation which is available for FreeBSD. I would start
> with looking at an example network interface driver, e.g.
> 
> freebsd/sys/dev/cadence/if_cgem.c
> 

Our library also had the book "FreeBSD device drivers : a guide for the intrepid" (ISBN 978-1593272043) available as E-Book.
It was a nice read to understand how the FreeBSD driver stack works in general and also covers to some limited extend network drivers.
Maybe you have access to a good library as well.


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