VKernel progress update - 8 Jan 2006 (milestone reached!)

[Sascha Wildner]

Sepherosa Ziehau wrote:
On 1/9/07, Matthew Dillon <dillon at apollo.backplane.com> wrote:
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                Virtual Kernel In Search of Network Interface!
    Would someone like to write a pseudo network driver for the virtual
    kernel this week, for the release?  Sephe maybe?  It has to be 
someone
    familiar with NETIF due to our release deadline.  The
    /usr/src/sys/dev/virtual/net directory is empty and waiting!
./kernel.debug -I /dev/tap0 -r /opt/vkernel/rootimg.01 -m 128m

# ifconfig vke0
vke0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
       inet 192.168.4.6 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.4.255
       inet6 fe80::2257:ff:fe00:0%vke0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
       ether 20:57:00:00:00:00
:DD

http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~sephe/vke.diff

Hope ppl can improve it, when I wake up tomorrow.
Hmm, might I propose a uniform naming scheme for drivers which are meant 
for the vkernel?

Matt named the disk device 'vd'. Following this scheme, the ethernet 
driver could be named 've'. What do people think about this?

I actually don't mind if it's 'vk' or 'v' as a prefix, so vkd for the 
disk driver and vke for the network driver would be fine with me as 
well. It's just that I'd like to write a vdevice(4) manpage (or 
something like that) which discusses all drivers for vkernel, and I 
thought it could be nice to point out that all those drivers follow some 
uniform naming scheme.

Now would be a good time to agree on one.

Regards,
Sascha
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