interface controllers (of varying intelligence levels).
Contributed by Wasabi Systems, Inc. Primarily written by Steve Woodford,
with some modification by me.
Avoids using bus_dmamem_alloc/bus_dmamem_map at interrupt time.
Should fix PRs kern/13924 and kern/13979 from dive@endersgame.net
- while I'm there convert to use ether_ioctl.
false informations on a loaded ethernet segement.
- convert to bus_dma(9) (better late than never :)
- add proper le32toh/htole32 so that it works on big-endian system (tested
on macppc).
Close PR kern/10327.
timeout()/untimeout() API:
- Clients supply callout handle storage, thus eliminating problems of
resource allocation.
- Insertion and removal of callouts is constant time, important as
this facility is used quite a lot in the kernel.
The old timeout()/untimeout() API has been removed from the kernel.
if_tlvar.h, since the ThunderLAN PHY driver needs to know some things
about it's parent (and since it can only attach to a ThunderLAN chip,
this is the easiest way).
dan