Devel Digest, Vol 11, Issue 24

[Duncan Booth]

Jim Gettys <jg at laptop.org> wrote:

> Per my comments on your addition to the trac bug: GigE isn't high on our
> list: the answer depends therefore on the cost of doing so to the base
> system.

I don't think I actually know how to answer your question about the cost of 
providing the module. On build 182, which did have the driver, lsmod lists 
pcnet32 as size 32772 and mii 5760 (used by pcnet32), but I don't know if 
that answers your question.

Are you saying that it isn't possible (or is incovenient) to provide the 
additional module only in the development builds? Obviously there isn't any 
point having them in the final build.

Part of the problem is that, as a windows user, getting the network 
correctly configured with qemu is a bit of a pain and also suffers from 
bugs in the current qemu. vmware at least has solid networking if only the 
olpc image supported a compatible card.

Thanks,
Duncan