[openbeosnetteam] Re: Realtek 8139 Driver

Axel wrote:
> > > I notice, too, that both NewOS rtl8139.c driver (which, 
> > > unfortunatly
> > > for you, is no more
> > > present in our CVS and as NewOS source depot seem unavailable 
> > > these
> > > days... bad luck)
> 
> I still have a copy of that around when he needs it. I am a bit 
> surprised that you didn't just port that driver, that would have been 
> far easier and not so time consuming.

I've sent mine to Niels, so he can look how it (should?) works.
For instance, it don't bufferized packets on driver-side: each packet 
received raise the read_hook semaphore, 
A good design, the shorter the better.

I agree, porting this code to BeOS kernel driver API would be easier... 

> > Thanks a million. I will send any updated files to you too. 
> 
> For now yes, but please use CVS directly once you got an account - 
> that's the purpose of it, even if you don't like it now. It might 
> never 
> again be so easy to get write access to our repository, don't play 
> with 
> it ;-)

LOL
 
- Philippe

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