From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Hawkins Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 16:16:16 -0700 Subject: [U-Boot-Users] IXP425 ethernet & NPE microcode In-Reply-To: <7EDC24AB1ED682439657D3B7790609D393984C@deepthought.Elpro.local> References: Your message of "Wed, 09 May 2007 17:17:15 +1000." <7EDC24AB1ED682439657D3B7790609D39397CC@deepthought.Elpro.local> <20070509223703.0902735264E@atlas.denx.de> <7EDC24AB1ED682439657D3B7790609D393984C@deepthought.Elpro.local> Message-ID: <46425640.1050707@ovro.caltech.edu> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Hi Jonathan, > Is there another way of providing ethernet support for this platform > without the license violation? Are there any legal ramifications that > follow? (Are they more likely to come from Intel or elsewhere?) > > It seems that u-boot wouldn't build until I added the file (I suppose > that I could have tried disabling ethernet)... Take a look at the www.nslu2-linux.org project. The NSLU2 is a Linksys USB network storage device. It has the same issue with IXP4xx Intel firmware. The Slug's, as they are fondly referred to, use RedBoot as a bootloader, and there exist various Linux kernels. Look around the NSLU2 web site for comments on the Intel firmware. If there is nothing definitive there, I recall Rod Whitby posted messages to the nslu2-linux newsgroup explaining the requirements; check the archives, or join the group and ask Rod directly. I haven't looked into the details, but I figured you might not be aware of the project, so this might help. Regards, Dave