Re: Elks networking

["Marc-F. LUCCA-DANIAU" <mfld.fr@gmail.com>]

Not forgotten, and now tracked by:

https://github.com/mfld-fr/elks/issues/1

MFLD

Le 31/05/2016 à 12:50, Alan a écrit :
>> I am also interested in such NE2000 driver, because the ETH chip on my
>> SBC is an Asix AX88796-L, and according to its datasheet, it claims
>> "register level compatibility with NE2000".
> The best place to start are the DOS packet drivers which are GPL but in
> 8086 asm. Unlike the rather convoluted SMP aware IRQ driven Linux
> drivers they implement IRQ based receive notification and blocking
> transmit in a tiny driver, which is the kind of model needed for a low
> end CPU and something like ELKS.
>
> As a chip it is pretty easy to drive although it is best to debug on an
> emulator until it works as the real NE2000 has a very antisocial
> attitude to incorrect I/O accesses (it hangs the machine solid).
>
> On top of that you need an implementation of ARP and then the TCP/IP
> stack.
>
> Alan
>