Re: Networking and stability (Was: Intro)

1999-11-20 Thread Alistair Riddoch
David Murn writes: On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Alistair Riddoch wrote: Agreed, but for initial coding, it may be best to run in user space till code fairly near to completion. There is alot to be said for this as an idea. Its much easier to debug user space code, and it doesn't bring

Re: Intro

1999-11-20 Thread David Murn
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

Re: Networking and stability (Was: Intro)

1999-11-20 Thread David Murn
On Fri, 19 Nov 1999, Alistair Riddoch wrote: Agreed, but for initial coding, it may be best to run in user space till code fairly near to completion. There is alot to be said for this as an idea. Its much easier to debug user space code, and it doesn't bring the system down when it

Intro

1999-11-17 Thread Giles Russell
Hello, I thought I would send a small intro to the group :) I am a final year student on a BSc(Hons) Computer Communications degree at Leeds Met., my final year project is to develop a working 8086 development environment with an embedded OS. In order to do this I must add SLIP PLIP to ELKS

Re: Intro

1999-11-17 Thread Alan Cox
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. We dont really have a networking layer. I don't that is in

Re: Intro

1999-11-17 Thread Giles Russell
Alan Cox wrote: 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. We dont really have a networking

Re: Intro

1999-01-17 Thread David Murn
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Giles Russell wrote: OK, call me stupid, but how can I get to the CVS tree ??? Someone else (Simon) should be able to answer this. I've forgotten how to, actually :) The stack will be a userspace app. I dunno about this. I think that a stack is fittable into

Re: Intro

1999-01-17 Thread Alistair Riddoch
Giles Russell writes: --5279E76C2371F9244EC603AD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit David Murn wrote: On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Alan Cox wrote: We dont really have a networking layer. I don't that is in itself a problem

Re: Intro

1999-01-17 Thread Alistair Riddoch
Luke writes: Beau Kuiper isn't doing the Networking stuff anymore. I'd love to help, but right now I just don't have the time (I need to work my ass off or I'll get kicked out of school). I had started an ne2000 driver, but it apears that is is no longer required. I don't know how to

Re: Intro

1999-01-16 Thread Alistair Riddoch
Giles Russell writes: Alan Cox wrote: 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.

Re: Intro

1999-01-16 Thread Giles Russell
David Murn wrote: 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

Re: Intro

1999-01-16 Thread Luke (boo) Farrar
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, Giles Russell wrote: David Murn wrote: 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.