"Matthew N. Dodd" wrote:
>
> On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Gary T. Corcoran wrote:
> > I'm trying to initialize a network device, and I'm trying to download
> > code *into* my device from some binary system files. There is no
> > "user space" or user process, for that matter, to deal with at this
> > point. I just want to (at this step) open a file(s) directly from my
> > device driver, read the file(s), and download the relevant parts to my
> > device.
>
> There isn't really any clean way of doing this so most drivers that need
> to load firmware usually compile them in. :/
Ugh. This isn't the answer I was looking for... :-( ;-)
I can do this in Windows (the original driver), I can do this in Linux
(our new port) via a slight kluge which temporarily fiddles with the segment
pointers (via standard system routines) to make it seem as if our driver's
buffer is in user space so that the standard system read() can be called.
You mean I really can't do a relatively simple thing like read a file
(which the _kernel_ really does, if you think about it) in my favorite
operating system?? There's gotta be a way for a driver to do a read(),
isn't there? :) BTW, I did a search on the email archives, and Mike Smith
implied that there *is* a way to read a file from a driver, but he only
made a vague reference to a driver that did same, and I wasn't able to
find any example code to give me a clue...
Thanks,
Gary
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