Network on POSIX (linux) target?

[Karel Gardas]

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Joel Sherrill <joel at OARcorp.com> wrote:

> Karel Gardas wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've found this thread from 2000:
> >
> > http://www.rtems.com/ml/rtems-users/2000/october/msg00189.html
> >
> > and I'm curious if there are any news about networking setup for POSIX
> > RTEMS target. From looking into sources, I would guess that the networking
> > is unimplemented for POSIX, but I'm not sure if it is not hidden (shared
> > from) somewhere.
>
> That patch never got merged.  You have two options:
>
>    + merge that patch or
>    + work with a simulator that supports networking.
>
> Personally I prefer the latter.  The unix/posix BSP is always a bit
> of a hack and is using native Linux/UNIX services.  When using a
> simulator, you are really closer to bare metal.
>
> qemu can run the pc386 BSP and networking is known to work.

Thanks for your hint, you are right, that's the way I will follow now.

Karel
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