Luke Farrar wrote:
>
> On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Cristi wrote:
>
> >
> > I would rather wait for a solid kernel and then add networking. I think
> > networking should be a module as you don't need networking everywhere.
> > Biulding it modular you can deal with limited resources.
> >
>
> I think the origional plan was to have a user space stack, and in kernel
> drivers. That makes sense, as the 64k limit won't stretch much further.
>
As for NIC drivers, I think a good strategy would be to recycle the
packet drivers Crynwyr provides. They're all GPL anyhow, right? I
think that the packet driver model, while it does have performance
bottlenecks, is good enough for what ELKS is supposed to do. We're
trying to multitask and network on a real-mode processor with at most
640K of RAM...
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