Re: [ECOS] i386 TARGET network programming

[Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour at redhat dot com>]

"Trenton D. Adams" wrote:
>   > I just remembared: there's an NE2000 driver by Christian Plessl and
>   > Thomas
>   > Meyer listed at http://sources.redhat.com/ecos/contrib.html which we
>   > couldn't incorporate for copyright reasons. NE2K cards are a lot
>   > cheaper.
>   >
> 
> So, if ne.o in linux works with the card, then the eCos driver should as
> well right?

I wouldn't go as far as that :-). I'd say if ne.o in Linux doesn't work,
the eCos driver probably won't either :-). I should also mention that there
may be a little bitrot in the driver.
 
> Is there anyway of getting eCos to query the drivers in linux for
> network capability?  If so, I imagine it would be a lot of work right?

Ummm... given they are completely different OS's, I don't really know what
you mean here. This isn't the synthetic target if that's what you're
thinking about.

Jifl
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