Porting ethernet driver from 10.20 to 11.00

[Chris Plezia]

I have a Ramix PCI Ethernet driver( PA-RISC 1.1 format) that operates properly in the 10.20 environment on a J-5600 machine. When I recompile the driver with ELF-64 switches set in the make, the .o file is produced and the kernel rebuild proceeds without error. When I boot, the system finds the kernel, prints the typical "X + Y + Z Start N" message, and just hanggggsss there forever...no output...no nothing! Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!!

[rick jones]

The networking stack in 11.0 is now Streams based. That means mblks instead of mbufs and a whole host of other things. There may or may not be a way to still use mbufs (not suggested though), but you will certainly need to make some alterations to your driver. I suspect there should be a driver development guide online at devresource.hp.com.