From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Subject: Re: Future of ELKS Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 06:08:33 -0300 Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <40ADC711.7060605@conectiva.com.br> References: <1084985870.3062.23.camel@talena.hsol.net> <40AC99A5.9030809@agora-2000.com> <1085066127.3062.35.camel@talena.hsol.net> <20040520224825.I3312@agora.rdrop.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20040520224825.I3312@agora.rdrop.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Dan Olson Cc: linux-8086@vger.kernel.org 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 :) >> >> > >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. > > > 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