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Re: i386 TARGET network programming
- To: "Trenton D. Adams" <tadams at extremeeng dot com>
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] i386 TARGET network programming
- From: Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour at redhat dot com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 20:42:35 +0100
- Cc: 'eCos mailing list' <ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Organization: Red Hat UK Ltd.
- References: <005601c1192e$90399f50$090110ac@TRENT>
"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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