Ethernet driver - without DMA ?

Greg KH greg at kroah.com
Fri Jul 29 15:03:09 EDT 2016


On Fri, Jul 29, 2016 at 09:47:40PM +0300, Ran Shalit wrote:
>  Hello,
> 
> Can we write Ethernet driver without using dma ?

Sure, we have USB network drivers that don't use DMA.

> But still using sk_buff APIs like done in most drivers ?

Yup.

What type of hardware are you wanting to write an Ethernet driver for?

thanks,

greg k-h



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