[SqNOS] New release: RTL8139 support, TCP/IP "working", native improvements

stéphane ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Wed Aug 2 08:12:06 UTC 2006


Hi gerardo

are you writing tests for SqueakNet?
Because this is a cool project and with tests we could really build  
on top of it.

Stef

On 31 juil. 06, at 00:56, Gerardo Richarte wrote:

> Download:
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php? 
> group_id=3891&package_id=3865
> swiki: http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/1762
>
> This release includes two NetworkingDevices: LancePCIDevice and
> Realtek8139PCIDevice, the former implementing support, at least, for
> VMWare virtual cards, and the latter for a very common real network  
> card.
>
> We have partially integrated NetSqueak
> (http://www.squeaksource.com/Net.html), which gives SqueakNOS support
> for most of the TCP/IP protocol suite, including basic, but  
> working, TCP.
>
> The native part has changed a little bit too, specially a bug fix to
> allow bigger images to be booted (27MB was the old limit, now phisical
> memory should be it). Also the timer interrupt frequency is  
> increased to
> 2KHz and ioRelinquishProcessor... effectively halts ('hlt') the
> processor. This decreases the power consumption, and introduced a few
> interactivity glitches that we should solve.
>
>     gera
>




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