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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 14:01:18 -0600
- Cc: "'eCos mailing list'" <ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Organization: Extreme Engineering
>
> "Trenton D. Adams" wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > > 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?
>
> That's the "synthetic Linux" target. The (real) PC target is a
proper
> port
> to PCs, which you can boot off a floppy, or with the right support,
even
> program into flash.
>
> > 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?
>
> Yes, but only the synthetic linux target :).
>
Oh, I see, thanks! I'm going to ask a quick question about that in a
minute if I can't find it in the archives.