[PATCH] pc386: Add virtio network driver

[Sebastian Huber]

On 01/06/16 06:42, Chris Johns wrote:
>> The RTEMS driver infrastructure is not capable
>> enough to deal with a plug-and-play architecture like x86.
>
> This does not make sense to me and I fail to see how it relates to the 
> previous statement. The original classic API for RTEMS is based on a 
> VME bus standard and while not a hot swap bus architecture it did 
> allow a plug in architecture based on a huge range of slave boards. 
> The fact an architecture or bus has plug-and-play support does not 
> mean RTEMS has to provide such support nor a BSP has reached a dead 
> end because it does not. 

The standard RTEMS driver infrastructure offers no support for 
auto-configuration, power-management, hot-plug and so on. The FreeBSD 
newbus infrastructure offers all of this. I don't think it make sense to 
add or event develop on our own such a functionality on a per-BSP basis.

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