From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joe Green To: bjowi@ida.liu.se (Bj?rn Wingman), linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: cpci network Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 11:08:09 -0800 Content-Type: text/plain References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01032111141400.03219@minotaur.mvista.com> Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Björn Wingman wrote: > Is anyone using cnet from compactnet.com or hhnet from mvista.com for > network over the pci bus? > > The sources avaliable at ftp://ftp.mvista.com/pub/hhnet/ are fairly > old, and are incompatible with newer kernels, like 2.4 or 2.5. It's not too tough a port, though. We've been incorporating hhnet into the kernel when we do a major release, and haven't been updating the separate package on the FTP site. > Is this/will it be incorporated/ported to the newer kernels? Yes. > Is there some other way to build a network over a (compact)pci bus, more > specifically the 21554, which hhnet supports? One of the reasons we haven't been extending hhnet significantly is that we've been working with PICMG, the CompactPCI standards group, to develop a backplane networking standard. The new standard will allow communication between different OS's and architectures. (hhnet works with multiple architectures, but only on Linux.) We expect that when it's complete this new standard will supplant hhnet for most applications. -- Joe Green MontaVista Software, Inc. ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/