Re: Elks networking

Marc-F. LUCCA-DANIAU
2017-01-23T19:48:49Z

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
>>
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