Hi Agnieszka, Thanks for your interest in HelenOS and GSoC. Please find my answer below.
On 03/02/2014 01:30 AM, Agnieszka Tabaka wrote: > - Driver for the family of Realtek Gigabit Ethernet network cards > - Driver for AMD Lance network card clone > > Which of these two drivers has the higher priority, eg. is more "wanted" > in HelenOS? Both of them are popular and such cards can be probably > bought used for a few bucks. Both of them have documentation available - > Am79... are very well documented and have publicly available manual, for > Realtek, I've found a manual for RTL8169 "in the depths of Internet" and > there's article about it on osdev.net <http://osdev.net>. There are also > many open-source implementations of drivers for that chips, which can > serve as some form of documentation. IIRC, the motivation to support AMD Lance was that it was supported by VirtualBox. The motivation to support RTL8169 is that it is very common in systems with AMD processors, just like E1000 on Intel systems. Since VirtualBox now supports also other NICs that HelenOS supports, IMHO it is more useful to look at the RTL8169 direction. Jakub _______________________________________________ HelenOS-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.modry.cz/listinfo/helenos-devel
