From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: RE: [9fans] PXE boot? From: lucio@proxima.alt.za In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 06:10:05 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: c1919e1c-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Nigel Roles says: > > I have a Rhine II driver, but there is enough fud on the FreeBSD > mailing lists about the reliability of the silicon and the documentation > is so poor I don't feel very confident about the driver. > You'll get poor performance at worst, in my opinion. While fidgetting with the PCNet driver, I realised (mistakenly, maybe) that once the driver delivers integral ethernet packets in both directions, you're done. The next layers take care of making sure there's no additional corruption. Of course, efficiency may go out the window :-) > The Plan 9 audio interface only supports soundblaster, and there > is no higher level interface to allow other styles, a la devether.c. > The Via audio pretends to be soundblaster pro, but actually only > has the registers. Instead, the driver catches accesses to the > registers and maps it to the real PCI device. Again, I did some > work on this, but have stopped for now. Sounds like a good project, putting in place a multimedia infrastructure that is workable. All the other OSes need to paint themselves out of a legacy corner, Plan 9 may be luckier. ++L