Re: [SqueakNOS-cvs] Re: [ANN] Packets for Squeak

[Luciano N. <lno...@ya...>]

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.-


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