====== Andrei Faur: Device driver implementation ======

===== Project Plan =====

==== Summary ====

The aim of this project is to implement a driver for a currently unsupported NIC either by writing one from scratch or by porting an already existing open-source implementation.

==== Milestones and Timeline ====

  * Week 1
    * Figure out NIC's control / state registers.
    * Create driver skeleton by defining interfaces, registers.

  * Weeks 2 - 5
    * Implement functionality by writing code for the interfaces. Define subroutines as necessary.
    * Start with open / close / irq as these usually require setting different control registers. This is good for an early stage when data structures are set up and incomplete
    * Finally poll / transmit which make full use of previously defined data structures

  * Week 6
    * Refactoring / debugging. Try to create as many scenarios as possible so any of the NIC's bugs will surface.

  * Week 7 - 12
    * Depending on how things evolved up to this point, this stage either requires fixing bugs and implementing missing functionality or perhaps tackling a new driver or some other contribution to the project. 
    * Finish documentation