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Subject: Re: [9fans] u9fs
From: Geoff Collyer <geoff@collyer.net>
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Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 23:10:18 -0800
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> 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.