From: Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@plexity.net>
To: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.arm.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: Integrating IXP4xx NPE support in kernel (with IXP4xx accesslibrary)
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2005 15:06:02 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051227230602.GB31728@plexity.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1135691390.5818.99.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Dec 27 2005, at 08:49, jamal was caught saying:
> A question for you: Does the 4XX allow you to rewrite the
> microcode? And if yes, why would you push this intel specific
> microcode?
No. The NPEs on the 4xx are not user-programmable like the uEngines.
You basically download the FW into the NPEs and they provide a "known"
interface that is accessible through Intel's software stack. We don't
want the FW in the kernel, we want the kernel interface, but we want
it written from scratch with none of the abstraction in the Intel code.
~Deepak
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[not found] <20051220230806.619131000@localhost.localdomain>
[not found] ` <200512211300.38163.sr@denx.de>
2005-12-21 13:52 ` Integrating IXP4xx NPE support in kernel (with IXP4xx accesslibrary) Lennert Buytenhek
[not found] ` <200512211548.23070.sr@denx.de>
2005-12-21 23:37 ` Lennert Buytenhek
2005-12-24 14:07 ` Deepak Saxena
2005-12-24 16:36 ` Marc Singer
2005-12-27 9:54 ` Stefan Roese
[not found] ` <1135691390.5818.99.camel@localhost.localdomain>
2005-12-27 23:06 ` Deepak Saxena [this message]
[not found] ` <m3fyoek4yl.fsf@defiant.localdomain>
2005-12-27 23:11 ` Deepak Saxena
2005-12-27 9:45 ` Stefan Roese
2005-12-27 23:12 ` Deepak Saxena
2005-12-24 14:04 ` Deepak Saxena
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