Any plans for 8-bit SMC8xxx network card driver?

2018-04-08 Thread Paul Osmialowski
Hello, I've found SMC8003WC an extremly useful card as it has normal RJ-45 socket and it can 'talk' to my modern era machines (ping and telnet them by their IP addresses from FreeDOS). I believe that under Linux it is operated by 1993-94's drivers/net/ethernet/8390/wd.c driver ('This is a driv

Booting from IDE?

2018-04-08 Thread Paul Osmialowski
Hi Guys! I'd like to ask you for advices and descriptions of your experience with booting ELKS from IDE devices. Looking at ELKS bug reports on GitHub I've noticed that some of ELKS users tried to make it work with such devices. I've bought one of such 8-bit IDE controllers for my ancient 1984'