From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Stephen Pelc" Subject: Re: Embeded Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 16:49:10 +0100 Message-ID: <42FA3006.30267.1AB80614@localhost> References: <42F9D825.24163.1960BE71@localhost> Reply-To: Stephen Pelc Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-reply-to: <42F9F031.9050105@unreal64.net> Sender: linux-assembly-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Lada 'Ray' Lostak Cc: linux-assembly > Thank you, I didn't know Philips do uC too :) I know Atmel one's > and they seems prety OK. What TCP/IP stack you are using ? There > exists sever GPL'ed, but I have no experimence with them. > > The only reason why I wanted to run linux is to use their eth > drivers & tcp/ip stack. Nothing more. We use our own, see www.mpeforth.com/powernet.htm If you are using external Ethernet chips such as the SMSC 91Cxxx series, RealTek 8019AS (and other NE2000 clones) or Asix 88976, the drivers are pretty simple and there are plenty of code examples on the net. Once you know what you are doing, about 200 lines of code. The Ethernet controllers integrated into most CPUs tend to consist of a MAC unit with small buffers and a DMA engine. You have to manage it all yourself. They can require 1000+ lines of code. What to do depends on the hardware volume and how much time you have. Stephen -- Stephen Pelc, stephen@mpeltd.demon.co.uk MicroProcessor Engineering Ltd - More Real, Less Time 133 Hill Lane, Southampton SO15 5AF, England tel: +44 23 80 631441, fax: +44 23 80 339691 web: http://www.mpeltd.demon.co.uk - free VFX Forth downloads