On Dec 21 2005, at 15:48, Stefan Roese was caught saying: > Hi Lennert, > > On Wednesday 21 December 2005 14:52, Lennert Buytenhek wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 01:00:34PM +0100, Stefan Roese wrote: > > > 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. :-(
As I mentioned in my earlier reply, we don't want all those abstractions in the kernel. > 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. I'll take a look a this some more, but is it just the HAL or the whole stack that's open? ~Deepak -- Deepak Saxena - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.plexity.net A starving child in Africa or you in front of your TV? Where's the real tragedy? - 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
