Hello from Gregg C Levine usually with Jedi Knight Computers
Now there is a good idea, let's run with it. What would be need to procede
with it.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dido Sevilla
> Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 9:31 PM
> To: Linux-8086
> Subject: Re: Adding networking to the ELKS basic install kit
>
>
> Luke Farrar wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Cristi wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > I would rather wait for a solid kernel and then add
> networking. I think
> > > networking should be a module as you don't need networking everywhere.
> > > Biulding it modular you can deal with limited resources.
> > >
> >
> > I think the origional plan was to have a user space stack, and in kernel
> > drivers. That makes sense, as the 64k limit won't stretch much further.
> >
>
> As for NIC drivers, I think a good strategy would be to recycle the
> packet drivers Crynwyr provides. They're all GPL anyhow, right? I
> think that the packet driver model, while it does have performance
> bottlenecks, is good enough for what ELKS is supposed to do. We're
> trying to multitask and network on a real-mode processor with at most
> 640K of RAM...
>
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