http://etherboot.org/wiki/ 2026-06-11T03:20:00-07:00 http://etherboot.org/wiki/ http://etherboot.org/wiki/lib/tpl/monobook/images/favicon.ico text/html 2009-06-14T21:21:16-07:00 http://etherboot.org/wiki/soc/2009/asdlkf/journal/start?rev=1245039676&do=diff Chris Kluka: Network driver development Journal * Week 0 [Before May 23, 2009] * Week 1 [May 23 - 29, 2009] * Week 2 [May 30 - June 7, 2009] * Week 3 [June 8 - 14, 2009] * Week 4 [June 15 - 21, 2009] * Week 5 [June 22 - 28, 2009] * Week 6 [June 29 - July 5, 2009] * Week 7 [July 6 - 12, 2009] * Week 8 [July 13 - 19, 2009] * Week 9 [July 20 - 26, 2009] * Week 10 [July 27 - August 2, 2009] * Week 11 [August 3 - 9, 2009] * Week 12 [August 10 - 16, 2009] text/html 2009-05-18T10:57:00-07:00 http://etherboot.org/wiki/soc/2009/asdlkf/journal/week0?rev=1242669420&do=diff Chris Kluka: Journal: Week 0 Monday, May 18: I am preparing to finally get started. The previous two weeks of my life have been spent on getting settled into my home again after moving back to Winnipeg from Kelowna. Today I will be locating all of the hardware necessary (Read: digging through piles of bone yard computers) and extracting the specific hardware required for the duration of this project. text/html 2009-06-05T19:04:33-07:00 http://etherboot.org/wiki/soc/2009/asdlkf/journal/week1?rev=1244253873&do=diff Chris Kluka: Network driver development Journal Week 1 Prior to week 1: Before week one began, I constructed a basic environment for the development to take place over the following weeks. This entailed: - Existing components on one box were consolodated into another box (approx 2 hours) - System was format-reinstalled with ubuntu. This system is to be the host 'booting' server and where I will be developing code. I also prepared a local git repository, configured port forwarding for SSH and … text/html 2009-06-07T14:33:47-07:00 http://etherboot.org/wiki/soc/2009/asdlkf/journal/week2?rev=1244410427&do=diff June 1, vacation. June 2, Meeting with Marty. After a very slow start, I feel confident in this meeting. Marty and I spoke for just under an hour about where I am, where I am headed, and how to get there. For the first time ever, I successfully compiled gPXE. A good start. text/html 2009-06-16T21:21:56-07:00 http://etherboot.org/wiki/soc/2009/asdlkf/journal/week3?rev=1245212516&do=diff June 7: I have begun. - Prepared skge driver: “make bin/skge.pxe” - setup dhcp server - 'filename skge.pxe“','server <ip of tftp>' - setup tftpd - /tftpboot/ - Installed a DGE-530T into an SiS mainboard. Attempted booting file. DHCP and tftp worked ok; but the dge-530T does not provide a boot rom so I booted of the SiS onboard. text/html 2009-06-21T22:36:34-07:00 http://etherboot.org/wiki/soc/2009/asdlkf/journal/week4?rev=1245648994&do=diff June 15: - Completed: skge_devinit() - Meeting with Marty: I spoke on the phone with Marty today for about 90 minutes. We discussed my progress and he reviewed my code up until now. Overall, it was a very constructive meeting. - Key recomendations of that conversation were: text/html 2009-06-29T16:42:47-07:00 http://etherboot.org/wiki/soc/2009/asdlkf/journal/week5?rev=1246318967&do=diff June 22: I started out the evening of the 22nd working on a debugging issue... I asked rwcr for some help and he gladly provided it. The issue of the night was debugging why open (or any other procedure) was not being called at all. rwcr showed me how to hook up to to a gdbstub with udp debugging and I inserted an rtl8139b into my testing machine. After a while tracing variables and stepping into procedures, I found (again, with much help from rwcr) that the reference to netdevice that I was… text/html 2009-07-07T17:25:25-07:00 http://etherboot.org/wiki/soc/2009/asdlkf/journal/week6?rev=1247012725&do=diff June 29 6:45 PM: Current status: Up until now, I have completed most of the data structure definitions, skge_probe(), and skge_open(). I am obviously quite behind compared to my project plan, but that is not something I can easily resolve; However; It does look like I will have time still left over at the end of writing the skge driver for some other prospects in this task. Possibly tg3? text/html 2009-07-12T11:21:27-07:00 http://etherboot.org/wiki/soc/2009/asdlkf/journal/week7?rev=1247422887&do=diff July 4: Meeting with Marty: There are obviously some shortcommings in my driver design; As my driver progress has been good up to this point, I'm going to take a step back for a while and do some personal education on other drivers and driver structure;