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

Daniel Poon mr.d.poon at gmail.com
Sun Jul 30 23:02:03 UTC 2006


Now could you put it in a virus, so I can send it to all my friends :-)

Dan

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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