On Sat, Dec 24, 2005 at 06:07:52AM -0800, Deepak Saxena wrote: > 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?
I chatted with Lennert about this and was, well, amazed. In reading what I see on the web site, it looks to me that the library is still heavily guarded. They're publishing a GPL'd 'driver' that links with the library. The click-through license establishes the same ol' terms. "You can only distribute this software with a hardware product." Please show me where this new BSD license appears. - 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
