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Re: Virtual serial drive



On 9/6/2012 4:20 PM, David Schmenk wrote:
On Wednesday, September 5, 2012 2:03:40 PM UTC-7, schmidtd wrote:
On 9/5/2012 4:30 PM, David Schmenk wrote:

So what are the chances of making this work with Uthernet too?

They are good, and I've been keeping that in mind.  There's no change

required at the server end; it's already in place.  The trick is going

to be the driver size.  The IP stack isn't skinny.  Maybe it could all

stuff into $800-$1fff...

Maybe it can be an abbreviated IP stack to just transfer the packets back and forth?  Have some initialization code that can be unloaded?  I have some basic Uthernet sniffing code left over from VM02...

That's a good idea. With pre-initialization, we'd lose flexibility, but we could eject everything but what's needed for UDP. It would probably entail building two stack versions - the usual full one, and a stripped-bare version that just took the now-digested configuration block. This is definitely turning into a loader plus relocated driver kind of affair.

If I'm ever going to deliver something to poor Ric, I'd better just get the serial version packaged and documented, and worry about you next...