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Re: "Plug-and-play" networking in eCos
On 2009-04-22, Chris Holgate <chris@zynaptic.com> wrote:
>>> No replies. Apparently plug-and-play is not hip with eCos
>>> developers :)
>>
>> No, I just have no idea what "plug-and-play networking" means
>> in this context.
>>
>> To me, "plug-and-play" refers to a mostly-broken scheme to
>> auto-detect ISA cards in old-school PCs and configure their IO
>> addresses and IRQ usage automagically. IIRC, it didn't work.
>
> The PnP TLA has subsequently been overloaded and extended to give UPnP,
> which is what I think the original question was about. See:
>
> http://www.upnp.org/
Ah. I see it uses XML. That way you know it's got to be good.
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