[Freemint-list] slip.xif?

[Alan Hourihane]

On 29/05/17 23:52, Miro Kropáček wrote:
> Hi David and welcome! :)
>
>     I’m a professional programmer and long-term Falcon owner who’s
>     trying to get his old machine up and running again after almost 20
>     years in the cupboard.
>
> That's a noble idea, I'll try to help you out. ;)
>
>     I’ve been researching building a serial (hardware) module to
>     replace the ageing (and pretty poorly performing) ethernec system.
>     Looking at the specs, the SCC chip ought to be able to do a
>     similar job speed-wise. I thought I’d do a few experiments with
>     SLIP and PPP under MiNT, talking to a Raspberry Pi initially.
>
> Before jumping into the SLIP topic, I must mention this:
> https://joy.sophics.cz/parcp/parcp-usb.html
> <https://joy.sophics.cz/parcp/parcp-usb.html> ... trust me, you wont
> be willing to go back once tried. ;)
>
>     Googling popped up a message from 2013 suggesting slip.xif was
>     going to be pulled, but the wiki page seems to have been updated
>     in January this year (this is the one that recommends HSModem) and
>     I can see a ppp.c and slip.c amongst the source.
>
> Can you provide an url to this wiki page?
>
>     1. Is slip.xif deprecated?
>
> More or less, yes. It was disabled by this commit:
> https://github.com/freemint/freemint/commit/25294f68ed58fe2a4a73529a6017839bcbeb1d20
> <https://github.com/freemint/freemint/commit/25294f68ed58fe2a4a73529a6017839bcbeb1d20>,
> making
> this: http://sparemint.org/mailinglist/Mailing-Lists/MiNT-List.201312/52B98506.4060501@fairlite.co.uk.text
> possible. In that or some nearby thread it has been mentioned in
> favour of PPP.

serial.c uses O_GLOBAL, so the serial driver needs fixing as it's still
relying on the old behaviour.

I'd love to know why the EtherNEC is underperforming for you, that's
sent you down this path though.

Alan.
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