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Introduction

This page serves as a simple project page for me. I use it to list my personal Hurd related projects. If you wish to comment on my lack of progress, do so in Good Style?, preferably at the bottom of this page.

Current Project

Currently I'm working on importing the Linux ATA-100 drivers to the OSKit. Using patches by Linux ATA guy, Andr� Hedrick. ATA-100 patches.

At my help I now have Ognyan Kulev?, he will test a few ATA-100 cards he has access to.

Joachim Nilsson?:

  • Promise PDC202XX.

Ognyan Kulev?:

  • Promise PDC202XX.
  • Intel 82801BA
  • Silicon Image CMD649

ATA-100 Support

Work in progress ... please stand by.

If you want to help out testing, please contact me via email.

Previous Projects

Add "new" Linux drivers to the OSKit

"New" means simply to add more of the drivers existing in Linux 2.2.X that don't exist in the OSKit today.

To test any of the work in this project you first need to upgrade the OSKit to Linux 2.2.22 using my patches below. The first stage deals with network drivers, 10 and 100 Mbps. Gigabit ethernet I have no possibility to test ... so they are not included.

Added NICs:

  • 3Com 3c515
  • D-Link DE-600, DE-620
  • Davicom DM9102(A)/DM9132/DM9801
  • N2k-PCi, NE2000 PCI-based cards
  • PCNet32
  • RealTek RTL8139
  • SiS 900/7016
  • ThunderLAN
  • VIA Rhine

I may, at a later date, include updates to drivers by Donald Becker. His company keeps new drivers at http://www.scyld.com/network/
Part Brief description DIFF Date
2.2.22-NET Adds more Linux NIC drivers patch-oskit-linux-2.2.22-net.diff.gz Dec 26, 2002

Upgrade OSKit Linux drivers

The OSKit itslef is currently at Linux version 2.2.12 for most of its drivers. The objective of this project was to upgrade to 2.2.22.

The first patch brings the Linux drivers up to version 2.2.13. Please note that:

  • The patches are cummulative, i.e., you only need one.
  • The patches only upgrade existing OSKit drivers, they don't add support for new ones. Unlike the corresponding Linux patches.

Tested NICs:

Testbed: Intel AL440LX mobo 128MiB RAM (only 64MiB detected by Grub 0.93).

  • Digital Equipment Corp. Etherworks Turbo PCI Controller DE435 - digital Tulip 21040-AA
  • 3Com 3C905B-TXNM Fast Etherlink XL PCI - Parallel Tasking II 3Com 40-0483-004

Untested NICs:

These I have and will test eventually

  • Western Digital 10 Mbps ISA - WD8003EBT
  • SMC Ultra 16 ISA
  • NE1000/2000
  • RTL8139

Part Brief description DIFF Date Verified?
2.2.13 Upgrade from Linux 2.2.12 to 2.2.13 patch-oskit-linux-2.2.13.diff.gz Oct 27, 2002 Yes (1)
2.2.14 Upgrade from Linux 2.2.12 to 2.2.14 patch-oskit-linux-2.2.14.diff.gz Oct 30, 2002 Yes (1)
2.2.15 Upgrade from Linux 2.2.12 to 2.2.15 patch-oskit-linux-2.2.15.diff.gz Oct 31, 2002 Yes (1)
2.2.16 Upgrade from Linux 2.2.12 to 2.2.16 patch-oskit-linux-2.2.16.diff.gz Oct 31, 2002 Yes (1)
2.2.17 Upgrade from Linux 2.2.12 to 2.2.17 patch-oskit-linux-2.2.17.diff.gz Nov 1, 2002 Yes (1)
2.2.18 Upgrade from Linux 2.2.12 to 2.2.18 patch-oskit-linux-2.2.18.diff.gz Nov 1, 2002 Yes (1)
2.2.19 Upgrade from Linux 2.2.12 to 2.2.19 patch-oskit-linux-2.2.19.diff.gz Nov 4, 2002 Yes (1)
2.2.20 Upgrade from Linux 2.2.12 to 2.2.20 patch-oskit-linux-2.2.20.diff.gz Nov 5, 2002 Yes (1)
2.2.21 Upgrade from Linux 2.2.12 to 2.2.21 patch-oskit-linux-2.2.21.diff.gz Nov 5, 2002 Yes (1)
2.2.22 Upgrade from Linux 2.2.12 to 2.2.22 patch-oskit-linux-2.2.22.diff.gz Nov 5, 2002 Yes (1)
2.2.23 Upgrade from Linux 2.2.12 to 2.2.23 [[][patch-oskit-linux-2.2.23.diff.gz]] Not yet  

Notes:

  1. Yes, the patch has been tested using the latest CVS version (HEAD) of GNUmach. Verified means that I have verified that GNUmach can be built, booted successfully (using IDE and various NICs).

To build GNUmach 2? you also need some other useful OSKit patches?. As well as two unofficial GNUmach2 patches. See Daniel Wagners post to bug-hurd, http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bug-hurd/2002-December/011134.html

Future Work

  1. Try to enable GNUmach to use the Free BSD? drivers in the OSKit
    I have looked into this a bit. The Free BSD? PCI drivers are initialized from the Free BSD? PCI probe. GNUmach uses the Linux PCI stuff which means the Free BSD? probe will not run - this is probably solved in some ingenious way int the OSKit, but I've yet to find out about that.
  2. Port a simple DHCP client (udhcp perhaps?).
  3. Enable the sound drivers in the OSKit -- port a useful sound daemon.
  4. SMP support for GNUmach2 - Current OSKit is broken.
Feel free to contact me if you have any comments or suggestions. -- Joachim Nilsson? - Nov 13th 2002
## Comments Go Joachim! Great work! -- [[Main/GrantBow]] - 11 Nov 2002