Re: [lwip-devel] possible contribution - network driver?

[Ivan Delamer]

I agree that drivers are usually very CPU architecture/hardware/OS
specific. I think probably the best place to contribute the code is to the
OS community, together with the LwIP port.

Cheers
Ivan


> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 20:06:07 +0100
> From: Kieran Mansley <address@hidden>
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> Subject: Re: [lwip-devel] possible contribution - network driver?
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> On 7 Jun 2012, at 15:55, Colin Nichols wrote:
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>> I wanted to ask the larger dev group if this would be a useful
>> contribution?
>
> There are relatively few drivers distributed with lwIP as they are so
> specific to each port and hardware.  Those that we do have are a integral
> part of a port of lwIP to an OS.  Is the OS you're targetting something
> that is used by others, or your own creation?  Is a driver without an OS
> useful?  Perhaps it is.  Does anyone have any thoughts on this?
>
> Kieran
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