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Re: "Plug-and-play" networking in eCos
- From: Grant Edwards <grante at visi dot com>
- To: ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:35:47 +0000 (UTC)
- Subject: [ECOS] Re: "Plug-and-play" networking in eCos
- References: <gs1n6a$qj9$1@ger.gmane.org> <gsmjke$oce$1@ger.gmane.org>
On 2009-04-22, Tarmo Kuuse <tarmo.kuuse@mail.ee> wrote:
> Tarmo Kuuse wrote:
>> I wish to add basic "plug-and-play" networking to an eCos device. It
>> should be a fairly standard task in network-enabled embedded devices.
>> All users would like to hook their stuff to a network and access the UI
>> by typing "mydevice" into a browser.
>
> No replies. Apparently plug-and-play is not hip with eCos
> developers :)
No, I just have no idea what "plug-and-play networking" means
in this context.
To me, "plug-and-play" refers to a mostly-broken scheme to
auto-detect ISA cards in old-school PCs and configure their IO
addresses and IRQ usage automagically. IIRC, it didn't work.
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