On Saturday 24 December 2005 15:07, 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.
Understood. But a total rewrite of this code is unfortunately not an option, since it's just too much work (without a sponsor). > > 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? It's the complete ixp400 access library. The file available via the link above is called "IPL_ixp400AccessLibrary-2_0.zip" and the BSD version of it is called "BSD_ixp400AccessLibrary-2_0.zip". Only the license headers seem to be replaced. As I heard the 2.1 version should also be available in the BSD version in december, but I didn't get access to it until now. Best regards, Stefan - 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
