Re: Compatibility of Nvidia NVNET driver license with GPL

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>]

On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 07:44:34PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > If you are serious about this, we have tons of good ideas, and tons of 
> > suggestions on how to avoid bad ideas :)
> > 
> > OpenCores (http://www.opencores.org/) might be a good place to start, as 
> > they already have a 10/100 ethernet MAC which is working, and has been 
> > silicon'd:  http://www.opencores.org/projects/ethmac/  Full "source" for 
> > the MAC is available, in VHDL I think.  OpenCores also has PCI VHDL and 
> > other glue you may need.
> > 
> > You'll definitely want to implement autonegotiation.  It's a showstopper 
> > without that.  And if it's not gigabit ethernet, it's already outdated. 
> >  So it's a tough challenge.
> 
> AFAIK, Clock is developing
> ethernet-over-infrared-over-300meters-of-air. It knows what is at the
> other end, and probably does not need autonegotiation. It is probably
> not going to be gigabit, either. [Current version that works is 10mbit
> over ~300meters].

FWIW autonegotiation is strictly related to "the wire", so wireless
would be a totally different space.

	Jeff