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From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] plan9pc file-erver kernel + ether2000?
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Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 14:39:39 -0400
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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.