Re: [Etherboot-developers] tg3 progress...

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ebi...@ln... (Eric W. Biederman) writes:

> Someday I want to do a driver from scratch but I until then I get
> to strip down linux drivers and see how small they can go.
> 
> On the broadcom gigabit driver the tg3 progress is being made.
> 
> I have done a quick conversion and the driver initialization code
> appears to be working in etherboot.  I have yet to implement transmit
> and receive functions, and there is still a lot of code to strip off
> but progress is being made.
> 
> The history of the source appears to be:
> >From a 10000 line broadcom driver to a 7000 line linux driver.
> >From a 7000 line linux driver to a 3900 line etherboot driver.
> 
> And I haven't really started cutting yet.  I wonder how small it
> will get tomorrow after I do some more serious cutting.

Well I instead made the code work so I could be more certain
of my cutting so I have a working driver in:
3726 lines of code.

Hopefully tomorrow I can find something to prune away.  It looks like I must
trim it with a thousand cuts, so...


Eric