From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: "Trenton D. Adams" <tadams@extremeeng.com>
To: "'Jonathan Larmour'" <jlarmour@redhat.com>
Cc: "'eCos mailing list'" <ecos-discuss@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: RE: [ECOS] i386 TARGET network programming
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 13:01:00 -0000
Message-id: <005901c11932$65d8c9d0$090110ac@TRENT>
References: <3B65BC10.F2F26ECC@redhat.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-07/msg00928.html

  > 
  > "Trenton D. Adams" wrote:
  > >
  > >   >
  > >   > > Is there anyway of getting eCos to query the drivers in
linux
  > for
  > >   > > network capability?  If so, I imagine it would be a lot of
work
  > > right?
  > >   >
  > >   > Ummm... given they are completely different OS's, I don't
really
  > > know
  > >   > what
  > >   > you mean here. This isn't the synthetic target if that's what
  > you're
  > >   > thinking about.
  > >   >
  > >
  > > >From what I understand, don't eCos PC target programs run
directly as
  > > native Linux executables running an eCos OS which call on the
Linux
  > > kernel for various aspects of the eCos kernel?
  > 
  > That's the "synthetic Linux" target. The (real) PC target is a
proper
  > port
  > to PCs, which you can boot off a floppy, or with the right support,
even
  > program into flash.
  > 
  > >  I was sure I read that
  > > somewhere.   If so, can't a network driver be written that will do
a
  > > similar thing to gain access to all possible network card drivers
  > under
  > > linux?
  > 
  > Yes, but only the synthetic linux target :).
  > 

Oh, I see, thanks!  I'm going to ask a quick question about that in a
minute if I can't find it in the archives.