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+NAME="NET-COMMON-ETHERNET-DRIVER-DESIGN">Chapter 33. Ethernet Driver Design</H1
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+>Currently, the networking stack only supports ethernet based
+networking. </P
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+>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. </P
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+>More comprehensive documentation of the ethernet device driver and
+the associated API can be found in the generic ethernet device driver
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+>Part XIV in <I
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+The driver and API is the same as the minimal debug stack used by
+the RedBoot application. See the RedBoot documentation
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