On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 03:48:22PM +0100, Stefan Roese wrote: > Hi Lennert,
Hello, > > > The main question I have is, where should the IXP4xx access-library > > > be located in the kernel directory structure? > > > > Maybe you can explain to the list readers what it is and what it does? > > It's the library needed for the NPE (network processor engines) > ethernet driver to access the on chip NPE's (e.g. download microcode, > communicate with the NPE's etc.). Unfortunately a pretty big piece of > software written to support multiple OS's. :-( So that means that there are wrappers for malloc and free and stuff like that? Doesn't sound very likely that you'll get that merged.. > > > Please comment on this and let me know if such an effort has any chance > > > of getting accepted into the official kernel. > > > > Assuming that the license issues have all been worked out now, it'll > > mostly depend on the quality of the code. (If this is the same Intel > > code that I saw a while ago, I think it'll need a fair amount of work > > before it can go in.) > > It most likely is the same code. Currently it's version 2.0. This > version is available under a special Intel license > (http://www.intel.com/design/network/products/npfamily/ixp425swr1.htm) > and under the BSD license (when you bug your Intel contact enough). > The files seem to be the same, only the header with the license is > exchanged. That sounds very fishy -- are you 100% sure that the person doing the s/Proprietary/BSD/ was in fact authorized to do so? (This is one reason why I'd love to see someone @intel.com submit this code upstream, BTW.) cheers, Lennert - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
