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From: Luciano N. <lno...@ya...> - 2002-02-06 20:53:44
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Hi Mark, Sorry about the long delay. --- "Mark A. Schwenk" <ma...@we...> wrote: > At 02:25 PM 1/31/2002 -0500, Luciano Notarfrancesco > wrote: > >What is missing is the actual device driver for a > real Ethernet card. > > Is anyone working on one? I might give it a try if I > can get the latest copy of SqueakNOS and get > familiar with its code. That would be wonderful! We don't have any objects to do DMA. That might be necesary if you want to implement anEthernetDevice. > Any tips for an aspiring SqueakNOS developer for > getting started? How are you guys doing development > and debugging? > We use VMWare (http://www.vmware.com). That helps a lot. But developing and debugging is still a bummer. Since SqueakNOS can't save the image yet, we have to develop outside of SqueakNOS, then build and install the new SqueakNOS vm+image and boot it inside a VMWare. Valeria Murgia implemented a RemoteFileStream that she uses in such a way that the changes are accessed remotely trough the SerialPort. That was useful, but I think that last time we tried it the SerialPort stoped working ... :( > I really appreciate all the work you guys have been > doing on SqueakNOS! I'm really looking forward to > someday replacing my FreeBSD and Linux network > servers with SqueakNOS servers. > Wow! We're still far from that, but it might be possible someday. Cheers, Luciano.- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send FREE Valentine eCards with Yahoo! Greetings! http://greetings.yahoo.com |