From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 21:11:42 -0500 From: jmk@plan9.bell-labs.com To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] pc boot and ether drivers In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0417ecbc-eace-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 It's mostly historic and most of the reasons have gone away. Sharing code with the current 9load code would be more trouble than it's worth. There are ideas for doing a better job by rewriting the bootstrap altogether, but who knows if/when it will ever be done. On Tue Nov 16 20:56:10 EST 2004, newsham@lava.net wrote: > Hi, I noticed that the /sys/src/boot/pc ether drivers seem to > be at least somewhat based on the /sys/src/9/pc/ether* drivers, > but somewhat out of date. What is the reason for seperately > maintained files (are the interfaces significantly different)? > How hard would it be to bring the boot ethernet drivers up to > date with the kernel files (or better to have them share code)? > > Tim N.