mini-os with working network driver

mini-os with working network driver

[Jacob Gorm Hansen]

hi,

does anyone have a mini-os or similar with a working network driver? I 
am in the process of porting my 'mstrap' minimal boot strapper up from 
Xen 1.3, and was basing my network driver on netfront.c from Linux. 
Unfortunately the ctrl-interface stuff is pretty hairy and very 
Linux-specific.

thanks,
Jacob

Re: mini-os with working network driver

[Steven Hand]

>does anyone have a mini-os or similar with a working network driver? I 
>am in the process of porting my 'mstrap' minimal boot strapper up from 
>Xen 1.3, and was basing my network driver on netfront.c from Linux. 
>Unfortunately the ctrl-interface stuff is pretty hairy and very 
>Linux-specific.

We're in the process of moving away from the current control message
stuff and toward a scheme based on a registry (c/f discussions about
local store/xenbus etc on the list). 

It might be worth your while waiting for this - I'm not quite sure
what the timescale is, but both Rusty + Mike are actively working 
on it as far as I know. 

cheers,

S.

Re: mini-os with working network driver

[Jacob Gorm Hansen]

Steven Hand wrote:

> We're in the process of moving away from the current control message
> stuff and toward a scheme based on a registry (c/f discussions about
> local store/xenbus etc on the list). 
> 
> It might be worth your while waiting for this - I'm not quite sure
> what the timescale is, but both Rusty + Mike are actively working 
> on it as far as I know. 

OK I will wait a bit and see what happens.

thanks,
Jacob