FreeLists / openbeosnetteam / [openbeosnetteam] Re: Some quick questions

["Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Cye Stoner" <stonerc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> So, I've had some time to look at some source code as well as read 
> the BSD
> 4.2 Network implementation notes.
> Yes, I'd still like to help :).
> I was just wondering what the status of the porting effort was. It 
> doesn't
> look like there's been a commit to the network stack in 2 months (4 
> in the
> freebsd_stack branch).
> Is the effort (kind of) at ground zero?

Yes, it definitely is. At BeGeistert we talked about the networking 
stack as well, and we kind of agreed (in absence of any member of the 
networking team, though) that it would probably be the best to keep the 
current design of the netstack as a base, and try to fix/port/rewrite 
it module-wise. It would also be nice to port the BSD WiFi generic 
layer and get all those drivers, but I personally wouldn't mind having 
a deeper look at what happens in Linux at that front right now.

The first thing we had to do would be to make the userland test stack 
environment work again (under BONE only, to work around that select() 
problem). Then identify the problems there are and how we get around to 
fix it. Oliver Tappe seemed to be masochist enough to actually take 
those initial steps - I hope he won't regret it too soon :-)
Marcus Overhagen, Michael Lotz, and I all expressed their interest to 
work on this in the upcoming weeks.

But does the existing but busy networking team think of this idea?

Bye,
   Axel.