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* [9fans] plan9pc file-erver kernel + ether2000?
@ 2001-05-17 18:26 Ish Rattan
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From: Ish Rattan @ 2001-05-17 18:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Is it possible to introduce support for ne2000 clone cards bu copying
the ether2000 and related files from /sys/src/9/pc to /sys/src/fs/plan9pc?

- ishwar


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* Re: [9fans] plan9pc file-erver kernel + ether2000?
@ 2001-05-17 18:39 jmk
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From: jmk @ 2001-05-17 18:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
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On Thu May 17 14:28:27 EDT 2001, ishwar@pali.cps.cmich.edu wrote:
> 
> Is it possible to introduce support for ne2000 clone cards bu copying
> the ether2000 and related files from /sys/src/9/pc to /sys/src/fs/plan9pc?
> 
> - ishwar

Not quite. If you do a diff on, say, the 2114x driver in both
fs and 9 sources you'll see there are a few differences. They are mostly
to do with

	Block vs. Msgbuf
	Easize vs. Eaddrlen
	no malloc in the fs kernel
	9 has driver functions which are not in the fs kernel
	 (e.g. promiscuous, ifstats)
	the set of included files is different

The reasons are all historical. Converting a 9 driver to fs is a
couple of hours of mindless editing.


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