[ECOS] Easy question, Rhine driver

Chuck McManis cmcmanis@mcmanis.com
Thu Feb 9 16:41:00 GMT 2006


At 01:26 AM 2/9/2006, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>This is one of the weak areas of CDL. Embedded systems don't usually
>have pluggable hardware. It is soldered to the board. So the
>configuration system is pritty static when it comes to hardware
>support. The current way to hand different hardware is to make
>different targets. You will find: pc_i82559, pc_i82544,
>pc_vmWare. These are all basically the same, just with different
>ethernet devices. You want to add a target pc_rhine to
>packages/ecos.db.

Thanks Andrew, I'll see about creating a target pc_rhine which will be 
Redboot for the VIA EPIA motherboards. These are pretty popular for 
embedding in various devices so it should be a useful target in general.

--Chuck



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