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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. |
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| 8390.c | ||
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| devio.c | ||
| dp.c | ||
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| netbuff.c | ||
| README | ||
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This is my implementation of a new network task for the Minix kernel. I did it initially to handle a 3c501 board (Etherlink), but those board are so unstable that it is not worth using them except for learning how to implement a driver. When I got a 3c509b board (Etherlink III) it was easier to write the code to handle them. The Minix code in 'dp8390.c' is too specific for the National chip set, so what I did was to remove as much as I needed of the code dependant from the chip and produce a generic task that, I hope, will be able to handle many more cards. $Log$ Revision 1.1 2005/06/29 10:16:46 beng Import of dpeth 3c501/3c509b/.. ethernet driver by Giovanni Falzoni <fgalzoni@inwind.it>. Revision 1.3 2004/04/14 12:49:07 lsodgf0 Changes for porting to Minix 2.0.4 run on BOCHS Revision 1.2 2002/03/25 14:16:09 lsodgf0 The driver for the NEx000 has been rewritten to be operational with the ACCTON 18xx (an NE1000 clone) The I/O routines for 16 bit cards are still untested.. Revision 1.1 2002/02/09 09:35:09 lsodgf0 Initial revision The package is not fully tested, i.e. I had only 3Com boards (3c501, 3c503, 3c503/16 and 3c509b) and WD8003. I got also a NE1000 clone but it was not fully operational and I could not appreciate the results. For this reason the changes done to the interface to I/O for 8 and 16 bits are not tested. $Id$