Opened 14 years ago
Last modified 5 years ago
#194 closed enhancement
Driver for AMD Lance network card clone — at Initial Version
| Reported by: | Jakub Jermář | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | major | Milestone: | |
| Component: | helenos/net/other | Version: | mainline |
| Keywords: | gsoc10, gsoc11, gsoc12, gsoc13, gsoc14, gsoc15, gsoc16, gsoc17 | Cc: | |
| Blocker for: | Depends on: | ||
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Description
Implement a native HelenOS driver for one or more clones of the AMD Lance network interface card.
- Details
- The new driver should be realized as a module which plugs itself into the HelenOS networking stack and implements the network interface card interface in the AMD Lance specific way.
There appears to be several clones of AMD Lance (a.k.a. Am79C90), The driver should be implemented with this in mind to provide support for the widest range of Am79C90 clones.
- What Gains and Benefits will this bring?
- The only NIC driver that HelenOS supports so far is a clone of NE2000. Some important virtual environments in which HelenOS is commonly run, such as VirtualBox, unfortunately do not emulate NE2000. On these systems, HelenOS cannot fully exploit its brand new networking stack.
- Difficulty
- medium
- Required skills
- A successful applicant will have good skills of programming in the C language and the ability to learn and use HelenOS specific I/O functions. A successful applicant should have a fair understanding of the workings of the networking stack too.
- Documentation
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