[U-Boot-Users] IXP425 ethernet & NPE microcode

[Stefan Roese <sr@denx.de>]

Hi Martijn,

On Thursday 10 May 2007, Martijn de Gouw wrote:
> > Yes, but IIRC the one from Christian never made it into
> > mainstream. And the
> > new one from Krzysztof seems to get quite good reactions.
>
> this driver is in the linux-2.6 tree of denx I do believe.
> It fetches the npe binaries out of flash.

No. Even the DENX Linux repository does not support this driver right now. 
Your changes never made it into our version. We should resolve this issue 
soon though.

> > > Of course, one will still need to put the microcode somewhere else
> > > due to licencing, but that's a minor matter.
>
> We have changed the intel code a little bit, that the npe microcode is read
> from flash. loading this binaries seperatly from u-boot is not a
> license violation.
>
> Right now, I'm creating a patch wich I will post later this day.

Thanks.

Best regards,
Stefan

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