Alan Cox wrote:

> > development environment with an embedded OS.  In order to do this I must
> > add SLIP & PLIP to ELKS, I would like to get in contact with the
> > relevant ppl to find out what is being done, and what needs to be done
> > on the networking layer.
>
> We dont really have a networking layer. I don't that is in itself a problem
> since you can prove you send/receive frames correctly and the rest is someone
> elses problem. There are some ideas for the stack kicking around. One thing
> for sure. The stack will be a userspace app.
>

Well, there will be one by May, or my final marks will be lower than I would like
:)

>
> > Also if anyone has any ideas on getting an EEPROM to boot on an old 8086
> > laptop, I would be greatfull :)
>
> Develop using DOSemu on Linux. It saves that annoying reboot cycle, and you can
> use the DOSemu ioport logging to debug it ;)

I use BOCHs at present to test ELKS development, + my linux boxes to develop on :)

G

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