Re: [9fans] u9fs

[Dean Prichard <dpx@acl.lanl.gov>]

We ported etherga620.c to the fileserver kernel a while back,
if there is interest it's at:

http://www.acl.lanl.gov/plan9/fs-acenic/

On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Geoff Collyer wrote:

> Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 23:10:18 -0800
> From: Geoff Collyer <geoff@collyer.net>
> Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
> Subject: Re: [9fans] u9fs
>
> > I agree but support for drivers is a concern.
>
> I've just succeeded in porting a gigabit ethernet driver from the cpu
> kernel to the fs kernel using a bit of scaffolding and a very few
> changes to the original driver.  I believe that this can be extended
> to all the other ethernet drivers and maybe some non-ethernet drivers
> and I intend to take a whack at it.  (Thus my recent interest in
> ether8139.c.)  I also believe that similar scaffolding can ease
> porting of ethernet drivers into 9load, which you really need to make
> a given model of ethernet card useful.
>