Re: Future of ELKS

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>]

Dan Olson wrote:

>>>	3) Include IP support. Again, it is available for hackers, and only a
>>>few interfaces are supported (slip?, ppp?), and are a bit hidden and the
>>>routes are very, very hard-coded. Ethernet support, at least for some
>>>cards (NE2000, that common 8bit 3com whose name i can not remember,...)
>>>would be really great.
>>>      
>>>
>>Is on the TODO since a while :)
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>Great, that's exactly what I'd love to see, support for a NE2000 or 3C503
>(Etherlink II, how could you forget ?:) and a few apps like telnet and
>ftp.
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Does anybody here considered porting uIP to ELKS? 
http://www.sics.se/~adam/uip/ I've been talking with friends about
the work I've been doing on factoring net/ code in 2.5/2.6 and how it 
could relate to 2.6-tiny (http://www.selenic.com/tiny-about/),
i.e. making it possible to disable lots of features that aren't strictly 
required to reduce the size footprint of networking
support, Matt already managed to boot linux-tiny (2.6) with as little as 
2MB of ram, more can be done and in fact several
folks are contributing patches for CONFIG_TINY with several patches 
making its way to mainline.

That, and the fact that we already have mm/nommu.c in 2.6 makes the 
future look bright for an eventual merge of ELKS into
mainline, as I discussed with Eduardo :-)

- Arnaldo