Chapter 33. ethernet driver design, Ethernet driver design – Comtrol eCos User Manual
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Chapter 33. Ethernet Driver Design
Currently, the networking stack only supports ethernet based networking.
The network drivers use a two-layer design. One layer is hardware independent and contains all the stack specific
code. The other layer is platform dependent and communicates with the hardware independent layer via a very
simple API. In this way, hardware device drivers can actually be used with other stacks, if the same API can be
provided by that stack. We designed the drivers this way to encourage the development of other stacks in eCos
while allowing re-use of the actual hardware specific code.
More comprehensive documentation of the ethernet device driver and the associated API can be found in the generic
ethernet device driver documentation
Part XIV in eCos Reference Manual
The driver and API is the same as the
minimal debug stack used by the RedBoot application. See the RedBoot documentation
for further information.
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