On Tue, Dec 27, 2005 at 09:22:31AM -0500, jamal wrote: > 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.
which is quite surprising, given the fact that you get full documentation (even as printed books) for the ixp2xxx microengines. Yes, all the actual example microcode is evil-licensed, but as lennert has shown it is possible to develop gpl licensed microengine code using their docs. why can't they just do the same for ixp4xx? -- - Harald Welte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://gnumonks.org/ ============================================================================ "Privacy in residential applications is a desirable marketing option." (ETSI EN 300 175-7 Ch. A6)
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