As far as the ethernet controller, I have been looking at these:
http://www.eetasia.com/ART_8800434318_1034362_NP_6dc505a4.HTM
PIC has a new 8-bit microcontroller that has a PHY and MAC Ethernet interface built-in. With this being a fully flash-able, programmable microcontroller, we can make this thing do whatever we want to lessen the load off of the Duo itself. It has a built in packet buffer, etc.... and they have a free TCP/IP stack code already made for this MCU family, so MacTCP wouldnt even be needed. lol. it could be handled entirely in the PIC's hardware, and just have an apple driver handle the hardware-based TCP/IP stack.
Possibilities are endless. Plus its bootloader supported so i can flash the PIC to whatever when its in-system via the bus.
Hell, you could even write a net-boot application and putting the image/location information inside the RAM of the PIC, so when the machine reboots it could in theory fetch a boot image from a server and boot the mac, albeit probably slow. Plus a modified ROM would be needed.
http://www.eetasia.com/ART_8800434318_1034362_NP_6dc505a4.HTM
PIC has a new 8-bit microcontroller that has a PHY and MAC Ethernet interface built-in. With this being a fully flash-able, programmable microcontroller, we can make this thing do whatever we want to lessen the load off of the Duo itself. It has a built in packet buffer, etc.... and they have a free TCP/IP stack code already made for this MCU family, so MacTCP wouldnt even be needed. lol. it could be handled entirely in the PIC's hardware, and just have an apple driver handle the hardware-based TCP/IP stack.
Possibilities are endless. Plus its bootloader supported so i can flash the PIC to whatever when its in-system via the bus.
Hell, you could even write a net-boot application and putting the image/location information inside the RAM of the PIC, so when the machine reboots it could in theory fetch a boot image from a server and boot the mac, albeit probably slow. Plus a modified ROM would be needed.