On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 03:48:22PM +0100, Stefan Roese wrote:

Hi Lennert,

Hello,

quoted

quoted

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. :-(

So that means that there are wrappers for malloc and free and stuff
like that?  Doesn't sound very likely that you'll get that merged..

quoted

quoted

Please comment on this and let me know if such an effort has any chance
of getting accepted into the official kernel.

Assuming that the license issues have all been worked out now, it'll
mostly depend on the quality of the code.  (If this is the same Intel
code that I saw a while ago, I think it'll need a fair amount of work
before it can go in.)

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.

That sounds very fishy -- are you 100% sure that the person doing the
s/Proprietary/BSD/ was in fact authorized to do so?  (This is one reason
why I'd love to see someone @intel.com submit this code upstream, BTW.)


cheers,
Lennert

-------------------------------------------------------------------
List admin: http://lists.arm.linux.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel
FAQ:        http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/mailinglists/faq.php
Etiquette:  http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/mailinglists/etiquette.php