From: Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Network boot - how to use?
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 14:18:50 +0100
> OSKit shows how to reuse Linux drivers, and is GPL. OSKit uses 2.0.x,
> though. I was thinking of gluing 2.2.x net drivers into GRUB. Does
> this sound like a worthwhile thing to try?
Is there a good reason that the network drivers in Linux 2.2.x is
superior to the ones in Linux 2.0.x? As far as I see, they are not so
different.
> Are there any other known recent cases of Linux net drivers being
> reused? (I read about them being ported to L3, but that's not very
> recent.) Does Mach use Linux network drivers, or just char ones?
I don't know which Mach you are mentioning. As for GNU Mach, it uses
the block drivers, the network drivers and the pci drivers. The
character drivers support is in progress. If my understanding is
correct, the network drivers in OSKit is derived from Shantanu Goel's
version of Linux emulation code in Mach4. And, the ones in GNU Mach is
also derived from the same source.
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