misc questions about the device&driver arch

[John-Mark Gurney]

william wallace wrote this message on Wed, May 24, 2006 at 15:48 +0800:
> IN static device_method_t pci_methods[] = {
> what is the freeBSD's magic to connect pci_read_config_method    wtih
> PCI_READ_CONFIG? awk script?and so on?
> which
> DEVMETHOD(pci_read_config,	pci_read_config_method), in pci.c
> command = PCI_READ_CONFIG(dev, child, PCIR_COMMAND, 2); in
> pci_enable_io_method in pci.c
> 
> and what if i create a new method in pci method interface ?
> such as   DEVMETHOD(pci_have_rest ,	pci_have_rest_method)
> what else should i do when i want to use PCI_HAVE_REST(dev ) point to
> pci_have_rest_method

These are handled by the _if.m files...  look at sys/dev/pci/pci_if.m...
There is an awk script in sys/tools/makeobjops.awk that converts the
_if.m to the appropriate .h and .c files...

Please read:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/kernel-objects-using.html
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/newbus-overview.html

The device methods are implemented using kobj...

> On 5/23/06, Scott Long <scottl at samsco.org> wrote:
> >william wallace wrote:
> >
> >[...]
> >
> >> MSI:
> >> I've bantered around different suggestions for an API that will support
> >> this.  The basic thing that a driver needs from this is to know
> >> exactly how many message interrupt vectors are available to it.  It
> >> can't just register vectors and handlers blindly since the purpose of
> >> MSI is to assign special meanings to each vector and allow the driver to
> >> handle each one in specifically.
> >
> >[...]
> >
> >I just wanted to briefly say that an MSI implementation has been done
> >recently, and that it should start getting wider circulation and review
> >soon.  That's not to say that more work and design can't be done in this
> >area, but we should probably wait a bit and see what has been done
> >already.

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