vleo's Journal: IME6500 linux driver work

I'm working on IME6500 driver now. Darn thing does not want to do DMA transfers. Documentation must be incorrect or incomplete, or I'm missing something. I do have a working Windows XP driver for this card. I will be investigating the data transfers to the PCI BAR area using SoftICE debugger. Did not use it for a while... we'll see how it works out next week.

I wish there was one soul in the world with IME6500 linux programming experience. Well... writing this up I remembered that the chip manufacturer had given me a linux driver code for the chip. I don't like the way it's coded, i.e. in an ad hoc way, not using some common driver development infrasturcure, but I still can look how they setup DMA there.

To be continued....