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RE: i386 TARGET network programming
- To: "'Jonathan Larmour'" <jlarmour at redhat dot com>
- Subject: RE: [ECOS] i386 TARGET network programming
- From: "Trenton D. Adams" <tadams at extremeeng dot com>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 13:46:22 -0600
- Cc: "'eCos mailing list'" <ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Organization: Extreme Engineering
>
> > Is there anyway of getting eCos to query the drivers in linux for
> > network capability? If so, I imagine it would be a lot of work
right?
>
> Ummm... given they are completely different OS's, I don't really
know
> what
> you mean here. This isn't the synthetic target if that's what you're
> thinking about.
>
>From what I understand, don't eCos PC target programs run directly as
native Linux executables running an eCos OS which call on the Linux
kernel for various aspects of the eCos kernel? I was sure I read that
somewhere. If so, can't a network driver be written that will do a
similar thing to gain access to all possible network card drivers under
linux?