Board.KolibriOS.org

As some of you may already know, I am working on a new network stack for KolibriOS.
Since I have been spending a lot of time on it lately, things are starting to come together.

I have created some pages on the wiki to keep you updated about the current status of it.

http://wiki.kolibrios.org/wiki/New_stack
http://wiki.kolibrios.org/wiki/New_network_api

Any comments and/or suggestions about the design would be much appreciated.

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Wonderful! When are you going to add changes to SVN?

When it fully works.
And, because none of the old drivers/applications will still work, I will need to write some new drivers and applications
(mainly as code examples, but also to be able to test the rest of the code..)

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Asper, I and hidnplayr have currently no time to actively develop something, so this branch is frozen. It is easy to integrate changes from trunk, but I think that it has no sense while no development goes on.

Asper, I have actually wrote some code for PPPoE, namely first stage - sending PPPoE discover and getting PPPoE offers. I did it to test a driver for a network card in the situation where only PPPoE connection is available, so other network code cannot be used directly, and this stage involves send+receive, which was enough for testing BTW I have uploaded binaries to http://ftp.kolibrios.org/users/CleverMouse/ - there are modified kernel and a program which dumps collected offers to console.
I thought that it is natural to write PPPoE support in the net branch, because it is good structured and extendable unlike trunk. However, there are many things that should be added to net branch - even TCP is not supported yet, and it is quite complicated - so now I think that adding PPPoE to trunk has also some advantages Anyway, I have almost no time for Kolibri, so I can't do active development.

Asper, I think that there is nothing secret in this code, so I've uploaded it to my ftp dir as http://ftp.kolibrios.org/users/CleverMouse/pppoe_src.7z. I apologize for the delay.

Thanks a lot!

Do you need all network card datasheets - both PHY and MAC layers?

Hi. I tested the latest version of new stack distro r3424. So my lan card isn't supported? Notebook Acer Aspire 4740G.
Can you add vendor definition from Network Driver Control Center to PciDev?

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Your lan card is of the broadcom BCM57xx family. It is not supported yet. But since this is a quite popular card and has good documentation, it's likely that it will be supported in the future.

PCIDEV is normally compiled without full list of vendors, because its quite large. Thats why broadcom and Atheros are not in the list.
Network driver control center has a smaller list of vendors (wich sell network hardware).

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Qemu 0.12.2 and SVN r. 3831
HTMLv + Downloader - download from the network is very-very slow
For example loading http://board.kolibrios.org is 100 times slower than the old network stack.
Ends with the message "No more data" in the BOARD, but the page is still not displayed.

UPD.

qemu -L . -m 128 -fda kolibri.img -boot a -hda c100.img -hdb c100_2.img -cdrom kolibri.iso -localtime -k ru -vga vmware -net nic,model=ne2k_pci -net user -soundhw ac97

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Kolibri build #3870, Qemu 0.15.1

1. Open /sys/HTMLv
2. Click "Home" button from toolbar
3. Click link "Cтатьи"
Now you can not close any program. You may open a new one, but there is no way to close them.

See PCIDEV.png and Boardlog.png for more information. This is a very serious bug, could you please, fix it?

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