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20 years ago

TCP/IP stack use on CS8900??

Hi, I'm trying to interface the CS8900 lan chip in an embedded device using MPC565 as CPU. I already made a driver for the communication between the MPC and lan chip, and can send a message (whic...
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20 years ago

Well, we probably can't help much since our experience is with a version of eCos ported to Altera' Nios II processor IP core. That said, eCos has a generic Ethernet driver that lower-level hardware drivers interface to. You should, hopefully, only needto write your own low-level driver, if there's not one already.

You might want to look at the main ecos home page (http://sources.redhat.com/ecos/) for more info. I'd recommend the mailing lists.