automatic NIC driver selection.

[Karel Gardas]

On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, Till Straumann wrote:

> Karel Gardas wrote:
>> 
>> Hello,
>> 
>> has anybody here already hacked RTEMS to support some kind of automatic NIC 
>> driver selection? The purpose is to compile once net-enabled binaries and 
>> runs on two (or more) machines (pc386 BSP) with different NIC.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Karel
>> -- 
>> Karel Gardas                  kgardas at objectsecurity.com
>> ObjectSecurity Ltd.           http://www.objectsecurity.com
>
> Yes.
>
> Hacked is the appropriate word.
>
> I write a wrapper 'attach' method which does the driver selection
> (the MVME6100 BSP I recently wrote also does link detection
> there), modifies the 'ifcfg->attach' and 'ifcfg->name' fields and
> vectors to the real 'attach'.


Sounds good! Do you plan to make your code freely available? Or is it 
already somewhere in RTEMS tree?

Thanks,
Karel
--
Karel Gardas                  kgardas at objectsecurity.com
ObjectSecurity Ltd.           http://www.objectsecurity.com