On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 10:45:23AM +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
Note that it's likely to stay out of the tree until somebody steps up to do this work. > 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. It still sounds kind of weird to me that this library is available under the BSD license to you but not to anyone else.. 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
