Re: What became of SLIP for Contiki?

["General_Failure" <tristan.mumford@gmail.com>]

Oliver Schmidt wrote:

> Both the Apple2 and C64 Contiki builds were done with recent nightly
> snapshots of cc65, not a release version.

I have the apple2 binaries compiling fine now (but can't test them).
The C64 source still seems kind of broken.
>
> At least the CVS head for the Apple2 compiles fine with the cc65 of
> yesterday ;-)

Using oven fresh CVS. Ahh, the smell of fresh source.

>

> - The API to the cc65 serial drivers changed and the Contiki SLIP code
> wasn't updated yet.

I haven't been able to locate the apple specific rs232 libs. Where are
they?

> - In opposite to the Ethernet card drivers the serial drivers are
> interrupt based.
That isn't so bad. Because I haven't located them yet, could you tell
me if they utilise the firmware or just direct hardware I/O?
I was going to write a horrible kludge lib for apple2 SSC IO, but I
guess I don't have to.
> - The Ethernet cards have Onchip-Buffers for several IP packets, while
> SLIP needs an additional buffer in main memory for collecting the
> bytes until the packet is completed.

Is the (n)kb of Aux memory (64k in my case) utilised by cc64 and/or
contiki? If not, is there any reason why the extra buffer couldn't live
there? I hate to see perfectly good RAM go to waste!

General_Failure.