From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?iso-8859-1?q?=D8yvind_Repvik?= Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 11:04:43 +0200 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] IXP425 ethernet & NPE microcode In-Reply-To: <200705100716.50252.sr@denx.de> References: <7EDC24AB1ED682439657D3B7790609D39397CC@deepthought.Elpro.local> <7EDC24AB1ED682439657D3B7790609D39398AA@deepthought.Elpro.local> <200705100716.50252.sr@denx.de> Message-ID: <200705101104.43753.repvik@kynisk.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de On Thursday 10 May 2007 07:16:50 Stefan Roese wrote: > On Thursday 10 May 2007, Jonathan Pratt wrote: > And furthermore, it would be very desireable to drop the current NPE U-Boot > ethernet driver implementation based on the original Intel code with the > complex and ugly Intel access library completely, and re-implement the driver > based on the new Linux IXP4xx NPE ethernet drivers. There are currently 2 > completely new drivers without the Intel access library which will result in > lower memory footprint and much less and cleaner code. That would be Christian Hohnstaedt 's driver which is (afaik) in mainstream by now, and Krzysztof Halasa 's driver, which is newer. There's a discussion about these drivers on linux-arm-kernel. Getting either of those drivers fixed up and pushed to u-boot would be great. Of course, one will still need to put the microcode somewhere else due to licencing, but that's a minor matter. ?yvind Repvik nslu2-linux developer