Giles Russell writes:
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> Alan Cox wrote:
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> > > 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.
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> > 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.
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> Well, there will be one by May, or my final marks will be lower than I would like
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> > > Also if anyone has any ideas on getting an EEPROM to boot on an old 8086
> > > laptop, I would be greatfull :)
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> > Develop using DOSemu on Linux. It saves that annoying reboot cycle, and you can
> > use the DOSemu ioport logging to debug it ;)
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> I use BOCHs at present to test ELKS development, + my linux boxes to develop on :)
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I use pcemu frequently, but have found over time that frequent testing on a
real machine pays.
What do you mean by booting an EEPROM on an 8086 laptop? WE currently have
the capability to boot the kernel from an EPROM on an ISA card such as a
NIC, or somehting similar.
Al
