On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Alan Cox wrote:
> 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.
Agreed. My ne[12]000 code (which should be in the CVS tree by now),
should in theory let you send/receive frames. The fact that it doesn't
properly work is a minor problem, however I'm suspecting only a tiny bug.
> There are some ideas for the stack kicking around. One thing for sure.
> The stack will be a userspace app.
I dunno about this. I think that a stack is fittable into kernel space,
and this is how I intend to write the bits of it when I get ethernet stuff
working.
> Develop using DOSemu on Linux. It saves that annoying reboot cycle, and
> you can use the DOSemu ioport logging to debug it ;)
DOSemu is great, but it has the problem that I can't talk to physical
hardware. For developing other code, such as tty code, or userspace apps,
I gotta agree dosemu is great. I tried vmware too, but it seemed a bit
excessive.
Davey
