On Saturday 24 December 2005 15:07, Deepak Saxena wrote:

On Dec 21 2005, at 15:48, Stefan Roese was caught saying:

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Hi Lennert,

On Wednesday 21 December 2005 14:52, Lennert Buytenhek wrote:

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On Wed, Dec 21, 2005 at 01:00:34PM +0100, Stefan Roese wrote:

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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).

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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

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