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David van Moolenbroek
9ba65d2ea8 This patch switches the MINIX3 ethernet driver stack from a port-based
model to an instance-based model. Each ethernet driver instance is now
responsible for exactly one network interface card. The port field in
/etc/inet.conf now acts as an instance field instead.

This patch also updates the data link protocol. This update:
- eliminates the concept of ports entirely;
- eliminates DL_GETNAME entirely;
- standardizes on using m_source for IPC and DL_ENDPT for safecopies;
- removes error codes from TASK/STAT replies, as they were unused;
- removes a number of other old or unused fields;
- names and renames a few other fields.

All ethernet drivers have been changed to:
- conform to the new protocol, and exactly that;
- take on an instance number based on a given "instance" argument;
- skip that number of PCI devices in probe iterations;
- use config tables and environment variables based on that number;
- no longer be limited to a predefined maximum of cards in any way;
- get rid of any leftover non-safecopy support and other ancient junk;
- have a correct banner protocol figure, or none at all.

Other changes:
* Inet.conf is now taken to be line-based, and supports #-comments.
  No existing installations are expected to be affected by this.
* A new, select-based asynchio library replaces the old one.
  Kindly contributed by Kees J. Bot.
* Inet now supports use of select() on IP devices.
  Combined, the last two changes together speed up dhcpd
  considerably in the presence of multiple interfaces.
* A small bug has been fixed in nonamed.
2010-05-17 22:22:53 +00:00
Kees van Reeuwijk
4865e3f4f9 More use of endpoint_t. Other code cleanup. 2010-03-30 14:07:15 +00:00
Philip Homburg
0bd4c5ee7d Initial convertion to asynchronous sends for communicating with ethernet
drivers.
2007-04-23 14:49:20 +00:00
Philip Homburg
66f9a5f508 Do not abort/panic when an ethernet driver does something unexpected. 2006-08-28 12:59:36 +00:00
Philip Homburg
9939089dea Safecopy support for INET. 2006-07-10 12:55:33 +00:00
Philip Homburg
ad1f30a63f Deal with crashing ethernet drivers 2005-10-21 16:51:21 +00:00
Philip Homburg
724813fdce Prelim commit for ethernet driver crash recovery. 2005-10-21 11:51:45 +00:00
Philip Homburg
0f26898f82 New inet with partial select implementation 2005-06-28 15:19:58 +00:00
Ben Gras
9865aeaa79 Initial revision 2005-04-21 14:53:53 +00:00