On Tue, 2005-27-12 at 15:05 +0100, Lennert Buytenhek wrote: > On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 08:49:50AM -0500, jamal wrote: > > > A question for you: Does the 4XX allow you to rewrite the microcode? > > As far as I know, there are no docs for this, at least not any publicly > available ones. > > Chapter 4 in the IXP42X Developer's Manual is titled "Network Processor > Engines (NPE)", but that's just a 2-page marketing blurb on how great > their stuff is. If you ask Intel for docs, they just tell you to go > look at the available (evil-licensed) source code.
They probably will never open it up. I suppose then one could treat it as any other ASIC driver that loads firmware (tg3 for example) - which is fine. >From Krzysztof's email it also seems that the driver is a lot cleaner than say the 2xxx stuff they put out. cheers, jamal - 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
